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Every day regional newspapers up and down the land go into battle on behalf of their readers. On this page you will find an archive of the hundreds of stories which HoldtheFrontPage has carried about newspapers fighting for their communities.

PM gives his backing to Telegraph appeal

Prime Minister Tony Blair has given his backing to an appeal launched by the Lancashire Evening Telegraph. The East Lancashire Magic Eye Cancer Scanner Appeal aims to raise £200,000, which will help save lives and radically improve the treatment of

Call for Govt help unanswered

Tony Blair has turned down a newspaper request to discuss the future of a deaf charity worker, jailed on drugs charges in India. The York Evening Press asked the PM if he would meet political reporter Adam Nichols to receive

Politicians back Evening Post objection

More than 5,000 people have joined a campaign launched by the South Wales Evening Post objecting to plans to move a neurosurgery unit from Swansea to Cardiff. Readers have registered their objection by sending in vouchers printed in the Post

Post makes bold move on asylum seekers

The Bristol Evening Post is fighting to keep a family of asylum seekers in Britain. In a bold move over a controversial issue, the paper is inviting readers to complete and return coupons to pledge their support for the refugees.

Editor's thanks for help over "town's disease"

Swindon Advertiser editor Simon O’Neill has offered a heartfelt thank you to all the contributors to the paper’s Swindon Disease Appeal. After the appeal launch in March the paper has beaten its target of £10,000 towards a permanent memorial to

News team to fight changes

Hartlepool Mail editor Harry Blackwood has vowed to continue to fight controversial changes planned for cancer services after a specialist panel backed the proposals. The panel of experts approved a scheme to move major cancer operations away from Hartlepool. Harry

PM gives his backing to Telegraph appeal

Prime Minister Tony Blair has given his backing to an appeal launched by the Lancashire Evening Telegraph. The East Lancashire Magic Eye Cancer Scanner Appeal aims to raise £200,000, which will help save lives and radically improve the treatment of

Knees up (literally) for Gazette staff

Keep-fitters from the Wiltshire Gazette & Herald were put through their paces in a bid to raise money for charity. Chippenham-based reporter Dean Valor (pictured below) and Jill Crookes (in the blue top) from the Devizes office, joined a fitness

Echo campaign is important, says minister

Health minister Alan Milburn has added his support to the Daily Echo’s You can help your NHS campaign. And he’s in good company – because his boss, the Prime Minister, has already backed the initiative, which aims to save the

"Wonder drug" bid by Somerset weekly

Signatures are flooding in to a petition launched by Somerset weekly, the Taunton Times, in a bid to win a fair deal for leukaemia patients. The paper was prompted to act after learning that cancer sufferers in England and Wales

Top-level support form triple-pronged attack

A newspaper’s scheme to crack down on crime has received the personal support of the Prime Minister. Since the Evening News launched its fight in May, the number of break-ins in and around Norwich has dropped significantly. The paper teamed

Paper's prison interview is blocked

A murderer has been blocked from speaking to the Press and Journal from his prison cell about the paper’s campaign to save Peterhead Prison. Limbs-in-the-loch murderer William Beggs, one of Scotland’s most notorious killers, got in touch with the paper’s

Kids protected by paper's backing for £120,000 project

The Somerset County Gazette and Bridgwater Mercury are backing an ambitious project to combat drug and alcohol abuse among Somerset schoolchildren. The £120,000 scheme aims to create a specially-adapted mobile classroom to give 16,000 primary school pupils advice about substance

Examiner aims to thwart the thieves

A major campaign to stop bogus callers preying on the elderly has been launched by the Huddersfield Daily Examiner. Through its campaign Keep Them Out!, which is being backed by Home Secretary David Blunkett, the paper is making a direct

"Health toll" on agenda for key meeting

Humber Bridge chiefs have been forced to sit up and listen after being bombarded with nearly 3,000 pleas to axe a planned toll on health. The Grimsby Telegraph has presented coupons, petitions and letters to bridge master Roger Evans on

War fears scupper India trip

The threat of war between India and Pakistan has scuppered the York Evening Press’s efforts to take its latest campaign to the Delhi parliament. The newspaper has collected nearly 5,000 signatures demanding that deaf and one-legged charity worker Ian Stillman