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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

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

Papers give £2,000 to encourage readers

An appeal to raise £100,000 for victims of the Welsh steelworks blast in November is expected to meet its target by the end of March. The South Wales Evening Post and Port Talbot Courier appeal has been boosted with the

Holey row gets sorted

The South Wales Evening Post has reported a good response to its campaign to eliminate potholes from the roads. The Get It Sorted campaign was launched in an attempt to allow local residents to get the voices heard. Since the

Readers give generously to cancer fund

The on-going battle to beat cancer is being boosted by money from readers of the South Wales Evening Post. The paper originally set up a campaign to raise £600,000 for a new chemotherapy unit at Singleton Hospital in Swansea. Generous

Drinkers asked to donate

The Cancer Fund, run by the South Wales Evening Post, has had its total boosted by a donation by one of the areas veteran fundraisers. Margaret Thrush, (59), has raised more than £100,000 over the years for different charities since

I told Dylan Thomas to stop writing

The gardening writer at the South Wales Evening Post is happy to boast that he told a young Dylan Thomas to stop writing. They worked together at the Swansea paper in the 1930s. Dylan Thomas was a copy boy and

Celebrating our 40,000th edition

The South Wales Evening Post has celebrated its 40,000th edition. The paper has been taking a look back at some of the major news events covered on its pages – and, below, the history of the 142-year-old publication. The history

New book reflects on Swansea

A new book looking back at the history of Swansea has been compiled by South Wales Evening Post journalist David Roberts. Reflections of Swansea is the fourth in a successful series covering life in the city in the past 120

Increased sales for half of all regional press titles

The regional press now sells and distributes 70m newspapers every week, to an audience of around 40m people, according to the latest ABC figures. Almost half (48 per cent) of all regional newspapers under ABC membership have increased sales between

Top honour for Gazette

The Somerset County Gazette has received a top national honour in recognition of its charity work. The paper has been presented with NCH’s Media Award following its ‘Supporting Somerset’s Youth’ campaign, launched to fund six projects across Somerset. The trophy

Welsh nominations announced

The cream of the broadcasting world will be pitted against the very best of the print press in the Wales heat of the 2001 BT Media Awards, the nominations showed today. Among the nominees are staff from the South Wales

Sales and marketing team success

The Lincolnshire Echo scooped four prestigious local newspaper promotion awards at the recent Northcliffe marketing and sales awards in Coventry. The Echo collected two winners and two runners-up places for promotions involving the Red Arrows, the local festival of football,

Ads accolade for Post

The Bristol Evening Post has been named Advertising Publishing Centre of the Year at the 2001 Newspaper Society Advertising Awards. Donna Newall, of the Wigan Reporter, won Advertising Sales Executive of the Year – a new category introduced for this