The first stage in a battle to Axe The Toll on Health has been won by Grimsby Telegraph readers. Humber Bridge bosses have finally promised to listen to the thousands of people who backed the paper’s call for free bridge
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Taking the grim out of Grimsby
A Lincolnshire newspaper has launched a campaign to clean up the town of Grimsby. The Grimsby Telegraph is asking its readers to keep watch for litter louts, and to help keep streets, parks and public places tidy. It has reported
"Health toll" on agenda for key meeting
Humber Bridge chiefs have been forced to sit up and listen after being bombarded with nearly 3,000 pleas to axe a planned toll on health. The Grimsby Telegraph has presented coupons, petitions and letters to bridge master Roger Evans on
"Health toll" on agenda for key meeting
Humber Bridge chiefs have been forced to sit up and listen after being bombarded with nearly 3,000 pleas to axe a planned toll on health. The Grimsby Telegraph has presented coupons, petitions and letters to bridge master Roger Evans on
Ease toll pain: Open letter to minister
The Grimsby Telegraph has sent an open letter to Transport Secretary Stephen Byers asking him to put right an injustice over health. More than 2,000 readers have sent in their petitions in a bid to cancel a Humber Bridge toll
Call for compassion in £50-a-week treatment row
A cash toll on health care which could come into effect next month is being attacked by the Grimsby Telegraph. Under new health authority proposals, patients from south of the Humber may get some of their care from the north
Face of Telegraph campaign denied compensation
A dying former fisherman whose face featured in a Grimsby Telegraph campaign to help redundant distant water trawlermen has been denied a compensation payout. Harold Davison (85), who has only weeks to live, featured on an emotive Telegraph front page
A wordsmith through and through
Philip Oakes loves words. You might expect that from a man who has worked for the Daily Express, the Evening Standard, The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Times and The Guardian. He also co-wrote the screenplay for The Punch and Judy
Original floods edition to be given away
A reprint of the ten-page broadsheet published after devastating floods 50 years ago will be given out free with next Friday’s Grimsby Telegraph. The paper – now tabloid – wants to mark what it is labelling “the greatest peacetime disaster
Telegraph flooded with calls
Golden Jubilee supplements and pages of black and white photos from 1952 filled the pages of the press – regional and national – last week, as the nation remembered the death of a king, and the accession of Queen Elizabeth
Downward trend continues for regional newspapers
Update on the latest ABC circulation figures
New-look Telegraph hits the streets
A new-look Grimsby Telegraph has hit the streets of north Lincolnshire, with a new masthead, cleaner design and more colour. The redesign is the biggest change since the paper was renamed from the Grimsby Evening Telegraph in 2000. Key staff
Grimsby newsroom in key murder hunt tip-off
Staff at the Grimsby Telegraph have been working flat out after a call to their office describing the Grimsby background of Soham caretaker Ian Huntley, under arrest in connection with the murder of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. The call
Coast town hit by media frenzy
It was the day Grimsby became the centre of a frenzied media scrum – and the cheque books were out in force.Court reporter Mark Naylor kept an eye on the tactics, trials and tribulations of a national media scrambling to
Regional press embraces Newspaper Week
Regional newspapers all over the country removed some of the mystery surrounding the industry as they reached out to their readers for Local Newspaper Week. The event, run by the Newspaper Society, celebrates the work carried out by the industry
Regional Press Awards winners announced
The Western Daily Press was a four-times winner at the Regional Press Awards 2003. The paper impressed the judges to scoop Community Campaign of the Year, Photographer of the Year and Feature Writer of the Year, as well as the