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 Middlesbrough Evening Gazette has helped create more than 400 new businesses in its circulation area – 100 days ahead of schedule. The paper joined forces with business start-up agencies last September with the aim of creating a new business
The Government’s announcement to do away with the double jeopardy rule – which currently means defendants cannot be retried for the same crime if acquitted – would be a victory for the Northern Echo’s campaign. The Echo’s Criminal Injustice campaign
The Southern Daily Echo has launched a campaign aimed at improving the safety of children at school. The Justice for Elizabeth campaign was set up after a lapse in guidelines was blamed for the death of schoolgirl Elizabeth Bee, who
The Gazette has stepped in to offer a sick five-year-old Blackpool lad the chance of life-saving surgery. He has a rare brain tumour and needs around £40,000 to travel to America for vital surgery. A day after publicising his plight
The Leicester Mercury has won its campaign to expose the hidden waiting list for scans faced by patients at Leicester’s hospitals. Two months ago the paper revealed the misery of patients waiting more than a year for a routine MRI
A campaign to encourage cyclists to wear safety helmets has been relaunched by the Gloucester Citizen. The Keep Your Lid On Campaign is being run in conjunction with Gloucestershire County Council’s road safety unit and a local cycle shop. Cyclists,
The Gloucestershire Echo is urging its readers to vote ‘no’ to a referendum question set by the Government. Gloucestershire’s 81,000 voters are being asked if they want a directly elected mayor to run the Cheltenham Borough Council. The Echo feels
Arguments on the pages of the Weston and Worle News about the state of the area’s roads have spilled out into a local planning meeting. North Somerset councillors have now joined the row, on the back of the paper’s Hole
The Derby Evening Telegraph has launched a campaign to persuade its readers to keep their cash in a bank or building society, rather than at home. Backed by Derbyshire police, the campaign follows two appalling crimes where local pensioners were
More than 40 dangerous air weapons have been taken off the streets of South Tyneside in an operation prompted by the Shields Gazette’s Hand Them In campaign. Police are so pleased with the success of the guns amnesty that it
A campaign to raise more than £1m to preserve one of Britain’s most historic and unusual theatres is being backed by the Northern Echo. Trustees at the Georgian Theatre in Richmond are aiming to carry out an extensive restoration project
An appeal by the Evening Courier to raise money to equip a new cancer unit in Halifax has passed another landmark total. The paper’s Macmillan Cancer Unit appeal now stands at £751,000 – only £49,000 away from its £800,000 target.
The father of drugs victim Leah Betts is lending his support to a Norfolk newspaper’s anti-drugs campaign. Paul Betts is getting involved with the Norwich Evening News’ Shop A Pusher campaign in order to prevent young people from being killed.
A donation of £4,000 has enabled the South Wales Argus to reach its £50,000 target in the St Anne’s Hospice Appeal. And thanks to an agreement the paper set up it means the fund will be doubled to £100,000 by
The Lincolnshire Echo has launched a campaign to ask the public what should be done with the city’s historic King Richard II sword. They were faced with the choice of keeping the city’s historic treaure – or selling it off
Support for a Manchester Evening News campaign to stamp out bogus cab drivers has come from all quarters. The paper is informing the public of the dangers after a further attack on a young woman brought the number of victims