The Derbyshire Times has kick-started a campaign to save an RSPCA shelter from closure with a £100 donation to launch an appeal.
The Chesterfield branch is facing its biggest-ever cash crisis and £75,000 is needed by July to keep the centre open.

Staff at Cornwall and Devon Media, publishers of The West Briton, have said farewell to long-serving colleague Wendy Gale, who joined the company in 1980.
She was presented with an electric golf trolley and a special framed front page of the West Briton as a leaving gift from the company.

The Nottingham Evening Post is giving readers the chance to send a huge get well soon message to Brian Clough.
The 67-year-old former Nottingham Forest boss is recovering after undergoing a liver transplant and the Post hopes the messages will provide him with a perfect pick-me-up.
The tributes are being printed in the paper and a copies will be sent to the former manager.

Big-hearted readers of the Shields Gazette have donated £13,000 to help autistic children and their families enjoy a much-needed seaside break.
South Tyneside Healthcare Trust have donated an old caravan and the money from readers will be used to spruce it up and pay for site fees at leisure Great Britain, Whitley Bay.

The Torquay Herald Express is hoping to help police find the owners of £350,000-worth of suspected stolen jewellery.
The newspaper featured some of the Aladdin's Cave of property in a picture gallery spread across three pages of the paper.

The York Evening Press-backed winter crime crackdown Operation Ratcatcher has seen an unprecedented rise in the number of tip-offs phoned in to Crimestoppers from the York area.
More than 100 calls have been logged since the initiative was launched and this has led to 52 arrests and the recovery of thousands of pounds worth of stolen goods.

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