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Focus on paper's ex-smokers boosts campaign's reach

The Liverpool Echo launched a campaign to help readers give up smoking by featuring a success story from one of its senior staff. Assistant editor Rob Irvine was one of a number of case studies covered by the paper. He

Reporter's sword purchase prompts call for new law

The Bristol Evening Post is calling for a ban on the sale of samurai swords after reporter Simon Peevers managed to buy one for just £40. Simon was able to purchase a 70cm sprung steel ceremonial Kung Fu sword from

Post's Drink Safe initiative in call for safer glasses

The Bristol Evening Post is calling on all bars and clubs in the city to use safer glasses and plastic bottles after a young woman lost an eye when she had a wine glass smashed in her face. The paper

News in brief

Eastern Daily Press readers have sent in donations at a rate of £5,000 a day for the paper’s Sudan Baby Appeal.A total of £50,000 has been raised which the paper says is enough to rescue almost every child from the

Reporter with a head for heights scales the Avon Gorge

Bristol Evening Post reporter Lucy Parkinson climbed the Avon Gorge to raise money for the paper’s One In Four campaign. Lucy, and her friend Carrie Browne, (both 23), raised more than £150 for the appeal which helps cancer sufferers and

Success for Evening Post Concorde fight

The Bristol Evening Post’s Let’s Bring Her Home campaign has ended in success, with the news that the last Concorde ever to be built is on its way to Filton. The newspaper launched it campaign to bring Concorde 216 back

Post's 78 faces spell out the spectre of cancer

The Bristol Evening Post has launched a cancer campaign with a front and back cover featuring the faces of 78 local people who all died of the illness. Yesterday’s campaign launch – marked with a special edition – was the

Regional papers join fight for Concorde

Two regional daily papers are now in the race to bring Concorde to their area. The supersonic jet is due to be taken out of service in October, and the Bristol Evening Post and Hull Daily Mail have both thrown

Asylum seekers news wins praise from support groups

Coverage by the Bristol Evening Post into asylum seekers has earned it praise from a leading UK centre for asylum seekers. The Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees, said in an independent report: “The events recognised the value of the

Evening Post move prompts flying shoes invention

A project launched by the Bristol Evening Post is set to result in production of ‘flying shoes’, which will take people soaring over the city’s rooftops. Airbus will carry out the work on the shoes, which give a virtual simulation

Fighting to bring Concorde home

The Bristol Evening Post has launched a campaign to bring Concorde home to the city, after it was announced that the supersonic jet is to be retired later this year. Following the announcement by British Airways and Air France, the

EP's 20ft poster takes to the road

The Bristol Evening Post’s Save Our Streets campaign has taken to the road – in a big way, with shoppers in the city being warned about the risks of street crime on a giant 20ft by 10ft colour poster. The

New kind of phone message to boost paper's campaign

As part of the Bristol Evening Post’s Save Our Streets campaign, BT has donated all the interior advertising space in nearly 100 phone boxes across the city to carry a personal safety message. A total of 96 special kiosks are

Newspaper sets up its own crimefighting website

A newspaper that has set up its own website to fight crime has been praised by the police for its growing role to boost public awareness. The Home Office revealed that Avon and Somerset was one of five police forces

Evening Post's bid to catch pensioner's killers

The Bristol Evening Post is offering a £1,000 reward to help find two attackers who mugged an 86-year-old great grandmother. Pensioner Joyce Bryant died two weeks after she was robbed of her handbag, which contained just £5, as she walked