Regional newspapers’ front pages have been used to highlight the importance of journalism on World Press Freedom Day.

The Society of Editors has marked the occasion by compiled some of the most memorable front pages from the United Kingdom in the past 18 months.

Among the titles celebrated were the Liverpool Echo, Birmingham Mail, Camden New Journal and Manchester Evening News.

The Echo’s demand for an end to the “‘anti-grass’ culture” on parts of its patch after the murder by Thomas Cashman of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel was among those highlighted.

The Mail’s declaration of a ‘Food SOS’ in Birmingham after it revealed around 55,000 people on its patch had gone a full day or more without eating also featured.

In March, the New Journal ran a special edition in which the entire newspaper was written by women in a bid to highlight the fact that women’s voices and stories “are still not being heard” despite the annual International Women’s Day.

And MEN reporter Ste Topping’s investigation into the death of toddler Awaab Ishak has since led to calls for change on housing conditions at Government level.