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.
An Essex newspaper has challenged the Prime Minister to defend plans for a youth jail in the area. The Brentwood Gazette has written to Tony Blair asking him to explain the decision to locate a secure training centre for persistent
A long-running campaign by the Torquay Herald Express for a Kingskerswell bypass has been backed by more than 80 per cent of South Devon’s residents. The drive for the bypass had already been supported by 8,800 Herald Express readers. And
An ambitious new appeal from the Torquay Herald Express has been unveiled to raise £500,000 to help build a chest pain unit at Torbay Hospital. The paper kicked off the campaign with a £2,500 donation following the launch at a
Journalist Graham Smith is challenging Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott to “do the honourable thing” and allow Sheila Doone to marry the man who has been at her side through the emotion of an undersea survey of the sunken Gaul.
A campaign to improve railway bridge crash barriers by The Northern Echo has resulted in a personal intervention by the Prime Minister. Tony Blair has promised to resolve the dispute between Railtrack, local authorities and the Highways Agency over who
The Lincolnshire Echo has started a campaign to Ban Replica Guns following an increase in armed incidents in the county over the past five years. In 1997-98, the county police’s armed response unit was called out to 29 incidents, with
The Evening Star, Ipswich, has won a substantial victory in its campaign to close killer gaps on a controversial stretch of road. The paper has led calls for gaps to be sealed on the A12 at Brightwell since it reported
Money is rolling in for the Yeovil Express Fund A Scanner Today Appeal – and the latest donation came from a most unlikely source. Its Northcliffe-based weekly rival, the Western Gazette, has sent in a cheque for £1,000 to take
The Colchester Evening Gazette has celebrated a further victory in its campaign to get the town’s historic treasures on display. The We Want to See Our Buried Treasures campaign kicked off six months ago when chief reporter Laurence Cawley revealed
The Newsquest newspaper group has been praised in Parliament for its campaign to get fairer funding for children’s hospices. Bob Spink, MP for the Castle Point constituency in Essex, spoke out in response to a campaign by the Evening Echo
After reaching its £35,000 target to buy a hovercraft in just two weeks, the Western Daily Press is now going one step further by continuing to raise enough money to also buy a boathouse. The newspaper launched a campaign to
The Evening Express, Aberdeen, is asking its readers to clean up their act and Ditch the Dirt. The paper has launched a campaign highlighting the problem of dog owners who are not cleaning up after their pets and plans to
Welsh Assembly health minister Jane Hutt has snubbed the South Wales Evening Post’s campaign objecting to plans to move a children’s neurosurgery unit from Swansea to Cardiff. As part of the paper’s campaign readers have been sending in vouchers printed
A campaign by the Nottingham Evening Post, which warned readers to be wary of consumer rip-offs and scams, has won praise from the Government. A new campaign by the Department of Trade and Industry is aiming to stem the growing
An appeal launched by The Journal, Newcastle, to help the victims of Africa’s famine has received the personal backing of Tony Blair. Responding to calls for help from North East aid workers, feature writer Anna Ralph went to Malawi and
Hundreds of big-hearted Newcastle Chronicle readers have taken part in a huge race to help disadvantaged children. The event, in aid of the Chronicle’s Sunshine fund, raised over £30,000 to buy vital equipment for sick and needy children in our