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 Derby Evening Telegraph campaign to bring a young African woman to Derby to train as a nurse, has come to a successful conclusion. Telegraph readers raised £3,500 towards the studies of 23-year-old Delia Matewere from Malawi. Three years ago
Work is due to start on dilapidated railway bridges in Durham after a campaign from The Northern Echo showed dozens needed safety work. The Scandal of the Railway Bridges is one of series of initiatives run by the paper to
An Oxford paper is trying to win justice for a nine-year-old boy who was left to die by the driver of a stolen car. Justice for Ross was launched by the Oxford Mail following the death of local lad Ross
A partnership between a local education authority and an evening paper launched a new revision guide to help youngsters preparing to sit their GCSEs. It was part of the Hull Daily Mail’s Moving On Up initiative to ease the pressure
Readers are being asked to step forward to learn how to save a life. The Lincolnshire Echo is to give everyone in the county the chance to learn first aid skills – if they are willing to spend two hours
The Evening Express has launched a campaign to persuade football bosses to choose Aberdeen as a venue for matches in football’s European Championships in 2008, if Scotland hosts the event. The paper believes the honour would bring the biggest economic
Evening Post staff have led by example and learned how to use life-saving defibrillator equipment at their Nottingham offices. The paper’s Start-a-Heart campaign has raised enough cash in only one month to buy two more defibrillators for the community –
Fly-tipping hot spots are coming under the spotlight as the Yorkshire Evening Post teams up with Wakefield Council, Ridings FM and the police. The paper is carrying regular features on the tipping problem in a bid to cut down on
A former chemist shop in Belper is to be preserved – thanks to the local paper. The Belper News led a campaign to save the historic frontage of the former Calvert’s Chemist after a planning application was submitted to demolish
The Western Morning News is supporting a campaign by TV personality Noel Edmonds to change the Ministry of Agriculture’s “aggressive” culling policy over foot and mouth. The Heart of Devon campaign calls for the end to the unnecessary cull of
Nottinghamshire fire deaths have hit a record low thanks to a joint fire service and Evening Post campaign to fit smoke detectors in homes. Three people died in house fires in the year up to April compared with six in
A brighter future may be in prospect for a Cerebral Palsy sufferer from Chippenham – thanks to an appeal in his local paper. The North Wilts Gazette is aiming to raise £9,500 for eight-year-old Luther Frost-Barnes so that he can
Campaigning newspaper the Hull Daily Mail has put its latest project into gear, a year after raising £30,000 for another cause. Last year the paper and its readers clubbed together to donate the money to Age Concern for a new
An appeal to raise money to support carers in Norfolk has been promised support in the House of Lords. Shirley Williams has pledged to raise support in Parliament for any fresh bid to unlock Lottery cash for the Eastern Daily
The Newcastle Journal has put the final pieces in place and announced this year’s Millennium Fund charity. The St Oswald’s Hospice Jigsaw Appeal hopes to raise £5.1m to build a dedicated children’s unit at the hospice in Gosforth and run
An accident prevention group is teaming up with the Express and Star’s campaign to get smoke detectors installed in homes across the Black Country. More than half the homes in the area are without an alarm, which could save lives