An Early Day Motion has been launched in Parliament to show support for the Manchester Evening News Make it Fair for Fans campaign, to cut the price of season tickets at Premiership football clubs.
MP Graham Stringer’s parliamentary petition adds: “This House… notes that this campaign has already persuaded Bolton Wanderers, Manchester City and Wigan Athletic football clubs in Greater Manchester to reduce their prices and has led to a national campaign, supported by [England manager] Steve McClaren, [FA chief] Brian Barwick, and [footballers] Kevin Nolan, Bryan Robson, [PFA chief] Gordon Taylor and Dave Whelan, amongst others.”
The campaign was launched on the back of a £2.3bn cash injection into clubs after the sale of overseas television rights.

The Sutton Guardian has launched a campaign to save Carshalton’s lavender field, seen as an irreplaceable piece of local heritage.
It could be bulldozed to make way for a new school, even though there are two alternative sites being proposed.

Plans to impose county-wide parking charges have been shelved for a year after a fierce campaign by the Milford and West Wales Mercury and Milford Haven Chamber of Trade.
A daily charge of £1 was proposed for some areas, with £1 for four hours in others – but opponents feared shoppers would simply visit out of town supermarkets which offered free parking.

A columnist from The Sentinel, in Stoke, is starting a monthly comedy night, delivering laughs at the Dead Sheep Comedy Club in Leek, Staffordshire.
John Woodhouse, (39), is no stranger to the stage and will compere the evenings.

An online tribute set up by The Northern Echo to mark the deaths of a father and son in a road crash was flooded with comments as soon as it was launched.
Almost 100 tributes from school friends, family friends and sporting team-mates were made on the echo website, www.thenorthernecho.co.uk