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by HoldtheFrontPage Staff Published 25 Jun 2007

Our weekly news round-up…

  • A campaign from the Gloucester Citizen to give tougher sentences to criminals has moved a step forward.
    The paper had been trying to hold the Labour Government to a pledge that Jack Straw made when he was Home Secretary, promising to get tough with judges who gave lenient sentences to drug dealers.
    The new Home Secretary David Blunkett has since unveiled proposals for radical sentencing reform.
  • Nottingham Evening Post readers are being asked to help turn a piece of waste ground into a wonderful charity garden as part of the Garden Angels project.
    The idea is to create an area to be used by the city-based Headway charity, so that people who have suffered head injuries can enjoy the area.
  • The grateful parents of Elliott Lamb are throwing a big party at the weekend to say thank you to everyone to raised cash to help their poorly son get treatment for a brain tumour in Australia.
    The £50,000 was raised thanks to the Shields Gazette’s Send Elliott to Oz appeal.
  • Reporter Nick Webster is helping in the search for a vulnerable Stockport man who has gone missing on the holiday island of Ibiza.
    He handed out leaflets produced by his paper, the Manchester Evening News, to boost the local effort to find 38-year-old Jeffrey Hodgson, who has severe learning difficulties.
  • An appeal fund for a toddler who needs to see a specialist in America, because he has a rare condition that makes it impossible for him to eat, has reached the £25,000-mark.
    The Cambridge Evening News has been organising the Ewan Riddell Appeal to help him make the vital trip.

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