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.
Twelve years after the East Anglian Daily Times launched a campaign for improvements to be made to a “death-trap” junction, a £5.5m safety scheme has been announced. Following a public inquiry, the Highways Agency announced the allocation of funds to
A weekly newspaper has prompted a clean up of a town centre grot spot by sticking up for residents and businesses in the area. The Richmond and Twickenham Times forced the council to get to work at a town centre
The Essex Chronicle has joined forces with the Chelmsford police to launch a campaign to stop bogus callers preying on the elderly and vulnerable. The month-long campaign will include articles in the Chronicle highlighting how victims of bogus callers are
The Lancashire Evening Post has signed up more than 3,000 donors to the NHS Organ Donor Register. The total brings success to the paper’s six-month Have A Heart campaign, which was launched in March and doubled its original target of
The Western Morning News is re-launching its Take Moor Care campaign. Originally implemented in 1999 to encourage drivers on the Dartmoor roads to slow down and stick to the 40mph speed limit, the campaign was aimed to reduce the alarming
When the derelict state of local parks came to the attention of the Grimsby Telegraph, the paper decided to do something about it. The Telegraph believes it is time to fight back and win back pride in the green areas
The editor of The Citizen has written to the Prime Minister asking him to appoint a minister for the elderly. The move comes as part of the Gloucester paper’s campaign for better rights for pensioners after the death of 88-year-old
The Hull Daily Mail has stepped up its fight to bring Concorde to Yorkshire, with a direct plea to British Airways boss Lord Marshall. As part of its Let’s Land Concorde campaign the paper has sent him an open letter
An £800m deal at BAE Systems in Brough has signalled victory for the Hull Daily Mail’s campaign to keep the plant open. The paper has kept the issue in the spotlight with its Sign it Now campaign, calling on the
The Wiltshire Times’ Justice For Zoe petition has been presented to Home Secretary David Blunkett by Westbury MP Dr Andrew Murrison in the House Of Commons. The newspaper campaign was launched in April in a bid to get a minimum
The Basingstoke Gazette has joined forces with Hampshire Constabulary to launch a burglary hotline. The hotline, part of the paper’s Burglary – Let’s Beat It campaign, has been put in place by The Gazette but will only be answered by
The Hillingdon and Uxbridge Times has launched a campaign to fight a proposed move or closure of the much needed cancer services centre at the world-renowned Mount Vernon Hospital. The Save Our Cancer Centre campaign is rallying readers by printing
Groundbreaking tactics of the Middlesborough Police vice team supported by the Teesside Evening Gazette’s Kerb the Crawlers campaign has had a major effect on the area’s sex industry. Their main objective was to deter men from travelling to Teesside to
National Transplant Week prompted several newspapers to take on the national organ donor plea – each with their own local angle. Staff at Archant Devon led by example to urge readers of the firm’s five weekly newspapers to give the
The Evening Gazette’s Ban Young Guns is continuing at the highest level – despite major steps forward in the past 12 months. The Teesside paper has helped secure legislation to take lethal air rifles out of the hands of young
The Daily Echo in Southampton has received more than 2,000 pledges of support from readers to its End the Carnage on the A36 campaign. The introduction of speed cameras, reduced limits, filter lanes and flashing warning lights are what’s being