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.
Personal messages from Tony Blair and the Duke of York were read out during a special service on Sunday to unveil the Colin Grazier Memorial. The event went ahead in Tamworth despite atrocious weather conditions and guests included relatives of
The Evening Post is joining forces with one of the city’s most popular radio stations for a two-pronged attack on street crime. The initiative – a three-month awareness campaign – is being run in conjunction with the Evening Post’s Save
More than 10,000 readers of the Exeter Express and Echo have backed its latest campaign – all within the space of just two weeks. The paper launched its Fair Deal For Our Hospice campaign after Government funding for the Hospiscare
The Argus in Brighton has won a hard-fought and lengthy campaign to keep breast cancer care services in the city. The campaign was launched a year ago when it was announced that the Nigel Porter Unit was too small to
The Oxford Mail and its sister titles are taking a leading role in the drive to raise funds for a new £20m children’s hospital in Oxford. NHS staff were told about the campaign launch in a special edition of the
The key demand of a long-running campaign by The Argus is about to be met by Brighton and Hove City Council. For the past year the council has been drawing up a map of showing every mobile phone mast in
The Evening Echo has launched a campaign to get Southend United fans back to their spiritual home at its stadium, Roots Hall. Supporters have traditionally stood on the North Bank terrace, but that end of the ground was handed over
A 10,000-name petition calling for a local hospital to have its three-star status returned has been delivered to Downing Street by the Norwich Evening News. Editor David Bourn and health reporter James Bigg travelled to London with Norwich North MP
The Manchester Evening News is calling on its readers to help reduce the level of vandalism on the region’s public transport. The paper revealed that some bus and train services are under threat because of the £4m annual repair bill
The Evening Gazette, Middlesbrough, has gained an exclusive interview Home Office minister Bob Ainsworth as part of its Ban Young Guns campaign. The Evening Gazette has been campaigning since June in a bid to stop the rising number of air
The Mid Devon Star has teamed up with St Paul’s Pre-School in Tiverton and a leading charity to launch an appeal on behalf of children living in desperate conditions. People throughout Mid Devon, especially children, are being asked to bring
The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald is claiming victory after councillors scrapped plans to increase parking charges. The paper had been campaigning against proposals to charge a minimum of £4 a day in Devizes and increasing the hourly rate from 35p
Readers of the York Evening Press have donated more than £5,000 to the paper’s Africa appeal. The Evening Press joined forces with Unicef to raise funds for the estimated six million starving youngsters in southern Africa. Readers have been urged
A campaign by the South Wales Argus to re-open a rail link to passenger trains has received a boost with the news that a bid is being prepared for nearly £10m in European funding. If successful, it would help fund
A campaign being run by the News Shopper which aims to reduce crime has received high profile backing. The Shop A Yob initiative was launched more than seven months ago and has been supported by Home Secretary David Blunkett, Metropolitan
Readers of a West Midlands weekly returning from their summer holidays are being asked to donate their spare foreign currency in the name of charity. The Change For The Better initiative was launched by the Great Barr Observer six months