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.
The Wiltshire Times has taken its fight to strip an Army officer of his OBE to Downing Street. Readers of the paper reacted with outrage when Lt Col Giles Stibbe was awarded the honour – for services in the former
The Evening Gazette on Teesside has claimed victory in its Save Our Steel campaign after the future of the Corus Redcar plant was secured for the next ten years. The steel giant lifted the the threat of 1,700 job losses
An animal charity is more than £8,000 better off thanks to the fund-raising efforts of a weekly newspaper. The North Devon Journal set itself a target of £7,500 in eight weeks for an animal treatment centre – and smashed the
The Evening Telegraph in Kettering is calling for a review in the law to allow drivers involved in fatal accidents to be given tougher sentences. Prompted by the case of driver who was fined just £500 and given nine points
Success for biggest campaign in paper’s history ensures hospitals get cancer kit
‘We want our paddling pools back’ is the resounding message from readers of the Skegness Standard, who have spoken out in the newspaper’s most popular campaign in living memory. The weekly paper has been inundated with calls, letters and e-mails
The Evening Chronicle in Newcastle has launched a campaign calling on the Government to act urgently to safeguard thousands of jobs on the Tyne. The newspaper has put out a rallying call to local MPs to put pressure on to
The Citizen has taken its campaign to save the Glorious Glosters’ famous regimental Back Badge to Westminster. The Gloucester newspaper took a group of Back Badge supporters – both young and elderly – to London for a face-to-face meeting with
The Grimsby Telegraph has teamed up with the local police to crack down on shop crime. The paper has carried a front page story to launch the initiative, which sees suspects’ pictures taken from closed circuit TV footage and printed
MP Don Foster has congratulated The Bath Chronicle on its Support Our Schools campaign. The campaign was launched at the beginning of the academic year to lobby the Government for funding to improve secondary school buildings. There is a real
The Nottingham Evening Post has launched an ambitious campaign calling for a ban on smoking at all workplaces in Nottingham. The paper wants to protect people from passive smoking in offices, factories, bars, clubs and restaurants. Its figures show more
The strength of feeling over car parking price hikes at Lincoln County Hospital has been demonstrated through the pages of the Lincolnshire Echo. Over the past few weeks the newspaper has been inundated with letters of protest over the new
Fears over spiked drinks have led the South London Press to mount a massive give-away of drugs testing kits. Its Safe and Sound campaign, to help people guard against the risk of drug rape, is giving away 200 of the
The South Wales Evening Post has come under attack for lobbying Swansea’s health watchdogs over the future of key medical services. Post editor Spencer Feeney stands accused by the Board of Community Health Councils in Wales of subjecting its members
Helped by 2,000 protest letters from readers, the Leicester Mercury has succeeded in stopping rubbish dumping on a famous First World War battlefield site. Thousands of British men – including 500 from Leicestershire – lost their lives near the northern
News staff have received death threats after running a campaign to keep an asylum-seeker in the UK. The North East Manchester Advertiser last month launched a campaign to stop the deportation of journalist Mansoor Hassan, who fled Pakistan after uncovering