A journalist from the Middlesbrough Evening Gazette has created a children’s cancer charity as a lasting tribute to his brave daughter who lost her fight against an aggresive cancer last year. Martin Neal, who is chief sports sub-editor at the
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Court's 'yob' ruling under fire
More than 1,000 people have called a Hartlepool Mail phone poll to demand that two baby-faced thugs are named and shamed. The response was almost a record for the paper and a massive 98.4 per cent of the 1,065 callers
Sunderland fan gets shirty
Staunch Sunderland fan, and Hartlepool Mail deputy editor, Neil Hunter (NOT pictured!) is facing a conflict of interests. His newspaper has got its hands on an autographed Newcastle United shirt to raise money for its Have A Heart fund. Readers
Rogues' gallery: keep up the pressure
Editors have been urged to continue their fight against the police’s refusal to release pictures of convicted criminals. The call came from Bob Satchwell, executive director of the Society of Editors, after Hartlepool Mail editor Harry Blackwell went into print
North-East journalist dies, aged 57
Margaret O’Rourke, former health reporter and women’s page editor of the Hartlepool Mail, has died aged 57. Her career began at the St Helen’s Reporter, in Lancashire, and later she was the first woman to work for the Irish newspaper
Forever chauffeured by a photographer…
Can you remember the days when reporters were chauffeured around by messengers in company cars?Hartlepool Mail editor Harry Blackwood looks back to the “good old days” – when a reporter and photographer might spend all day in pursuit of a
Old pops can beat the idols
Old pops can beat the idols by Graham Smith Freelance journalist Graham Smith, of Mediaworld, on why a golden oldie is causing a musical stir. Page 1 of 3 If music was the food of love half of today’s pop
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Keep your favourites rolling in, folks! Wayne Swiffin, of the Derby Evening Telegraph, was amused by this, on BBC’s Ceefax: Reward: £5,000 for shooting culprits Neil Burns, of The Orcadian, mailed us with what he considers a classic, written by
Council chief's complaints are rejected by PCC
Coverage of proposed £200,000 payment is given the OK by industry watchdog
Have Heart in Hartlepool
A three-year-old autistic boy is being handed a brighter future thanks to readers of the Hartlepool Mail. They raised £3,000 to allow him to get the special education he needs, much closer to his home. The fundraising means the Mail
More drugs action praise for the Mail
A high profile campaign by the Hartlepool Mail to highlight a round-the-clock syringe clean-up service has come in for praise from anti-drug campaigners. The paper has ensured more people are aware of the service, which has ensured “drug litter” around
Praise for donor campaign
Transplant chiefs have praised the Hartlepool Mail’s Carry the Card campaign for helping to double the number of would-be organ donors. Dozens of Hartlepool and East Durham residents have pledged to give someone the gift of life since the newspaper’s
Minister praises newspaper's drugs work
A newspaper’s anti-drugs campaign has received a boost with praise from Home Office Minister Lord Bassam. He spoke to the Hartlepool Mail when he was in the town to examine local crimefighting measures. The Mail ran an award-winning the Stop
Bedroom boost
A £1,500 fundraising push to kit out a bedroom for a sick child has reached its target in record time. Hartlepool Mail readers raked in the cash in just eight weeks. Their generosity means that when seven-year-old Frances Lee arrives
Card boost from Mail
A man still alive thanks to a heart transplant has hailed the Hartlepool Mail’s latest campaign – Carry a Card – a “great idea”. The Mail has launched the push during National Transplant Week to boost the number of donor
Drugs campaign scores a victory
High-profile campaigning against drugs by the Hartlepool Mail has paid off with drug offences down and suspects up before the courts. Drug offences in the town have dropped by one fifth in the past 12 months, according to new figures,