The Leicester Mercury had the presses rolling at 5.07pm with a front page lead and page two backgrounder on the day of the Concorde disaster. Journalists drew on information from a Leicester University aviation expert, on hand within 30 minutes
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Perfect score for anti-vandalism campaign
A Leicester Mercury summer holiday campaign to crack down on school vandalism has achieved a 100% record. Deputy Editor Jeremy Clifford reported that during the seven-week campaign, not one of the six schools signed up was broken into. That compares
Beating the vandals
A crackdown on child vandals, launched by the Leicester Mercury, has been hailed a great success. The Mercury got involved after it found five schools in Braunstone village were joining forces to spend thousands of pounds employing private security patrols
Community push for Mercury campaign
A newspaper’s anti-drink-drive campaign has persuaded the local bus company to run campaign posters in its vehicle fleet. The Leicester Mercury launched Don’t Ruin a Life This Christmas with a case study interviewing the mum of a 20-year-old who was