Every day regional newspapers up and down the land go into battle on behalf of their readers. On this page you will find an archive of the hundreds of stories which HoldtheFrontPage has carried about newspapers fighting for their communities.
Sheerness Times Guardian editor Duncan Marsh celebrated the “special role” of his newspaper after winning a two-year struggle to save a local swimming pool. The decision made by local councillors to grant £1m to repair the rundown pool in Sheppey,
The Portsmouth News is calling on the Government to ensure that the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar is marked in fitting style. Plans for a royal review of the fleet – an inspection of the nation’s naval might
The Blood Transfusion Service in Scotland has heaped praise on Scottish& Universal Newspapers’ Save A Life for Christmas Campaign. The Trinity Mirror business launched its campaign in response to an appealfrom Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service in the lead-up toChristmas
More big names have signed up to support Tees Pride in 2004, the Evening Gazette’s regeneration campaign. As plans get under way for the third year of the fight to make Tees Valley area a better place to live, work
A sex shop chain has backed out of a bid to open up in Brentwood after pressure from the town’s local paper. The Brentwood Gazette’s victory follows an orchestrated campaign which galvanised local opinion and encouraged protests through petitions and
The first children have taken part in an ambitious education programme thanks to the Somerset County Gazette’s Stop It Before It Starts campaign. The project, which has been championed by the County Gazette in the largest campaign in the newspaper’s
Generous Somerset County Gazette readers have donated more than £1,000 to a child protection charity’s Festival of Trees to help support abused children in Somerset. Gazette editor Ken Bird said: “Yet again, our loyal readers have come up trumps. “The
The Runcorn & Widnes World has been praised for its part in a successful campaign to build a new bridge over the River Mersey. The Newsquest paper joined forces with Halton Council to bid for a new crossing which would
The Canterbury-based Kentish Gazette has raised £4,000 for the city’s homeless in just six weeks. A hard-hitting campaign by the paper led to donations from readers flooding in for its Christmas appeal, in aid of homeless charity East Kent Cyrenians.
Two newspapers are redoubling their efforts in a campaign to get a “tax on ill health” abolished. Nine months on from the launch of the Axe the Toll on Health campaign, the Scunthorpe Telegraph and the Grimsby Telegraph are calling
A Press and Journal campaign to raise funds for a new children’s hospital to serve the north-east of Scotland and the Northern Isles has raised £5m. It is one of the biggest sums ever raised by a newspaper-backed campaign in
The Derby Evening Telegraph’s Magic Million campaign hit another milestone as donations topped the £700,000 mark. The appeal aims to raise £1m to buy life-saving cancer equipment for Derby hospitals in memory of local fund-raiser Bernard Le Blond who died
The Christmas edition of the Dudley, Stourbridge and Halesowen News wraps up seven months of fundraising for LifeSavers, an appeal to raise cash for the critical care unit at Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley. Since May the appeal has pulled
Reporter Greg Jones and photographer Terry Morris from the Llanelli Star are planning a trip to Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro region to help deliver educational and medical supplies to poverty-stricken Africans. The South Wales weekly newspaper has teamed up with the
The Mid Devon Star’s Fields of Hope appeal with Marie Curie Cancer Care has passed the £4,000-mark. In the two months since launching the appeal to raise £5,000 to pay for Marie Curie nursing hours, there has been a tremendous
A campaign to save the pension book, backed by thousands of Powys County Times readers, could be about to win an important concession. According to the newspaper’s two local MPs, the Government is developing an ‘exceptions service’ allowing pensioners to