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Mail leads 'United for Peace' message
New editor backs multi-faith harmony event
Bid for Clough memorial gathers pace
A campaign by the Evening Gazette to honour football legend Brian Clough with a statue in his home town is gathering pace. Since the death of the former football manager the Middlesbrough-based newspaper has been calling for a permanent memorial,
Steel fight victory for Gazette
The Evening Gazette on Teesside has claimed victory in its Save Our Steel campaign after the future of the Corus Redcar plant was secured for the next ten years. The steel giant lifted the the threat of 1,700 job losses
Victory as Gazette helps halt controversial demolition plan
The Evening Gazette is celebrating after helping to stop a controversial scheme to demolish Middlesbrough’s historic North Riding Infirmary. The Teesside newspaper has waged a year-long campaign against plans to tear down the former hospital to make way for a
Press call for statue to football hero Clough
The newspaper of Brian Clough’s home town is campaigning for a statue to be built as a permanent memorial to the footballing hero. Supporters and former stars launched the campaign in Middlesbrough for “Old Big ‘Ead” to be honoured there.
Gazette link-up delivers Tees Pride message even further
The Evening Gazette is delivering its Tees Pride campaign message to an even bigger audience after teaming up with a local broadcaster. The paper is fighting to make Teesside and the Tees Valley area a better place to live, work
Name change kerb-crawler is unmasked by Gazette
A kerb-crawler who changed his name by deed poll after being caught seeking sex from prostitutes on Teesside has been unmasked by the Evening Gazette. In what appears to have been an attempt to hide his identity, the man changed
Paper bucks public opinion to welcome 'ghost ships' to NE
A campaign being run by the Evening Gazette is at odds with popular opinion – but seems to be turning the tide. The Teesside paper is campaigning to allow so-called “ghost ships” from America to come to the North East
Bumper postbag prompts Gazette heritage fight
The Evening Gazette in Middlesbrough is fighting to save part of the area’s heritage with a campaign to halt plans to demolish a former hospital in the area. Middlesbrough’s historic North Riding Infirmary is currently under threat after proposals to
Progress on guns:Diary of a press campaign
The Evening Gazette’s Ban Young Guns is continuing at the highest level – despite major steps forward in the past 12 months. The Teesside paper has helped secure legislation to take lethal air rifles out of the hands of young
Government asks editor for media briefing
Local newspaper staff have been invited to London to brief the trade and industry secretary Patricia Hewitt on the north east steel crisis on the day before she visits the region. Evening Gazette editor Steve Dyson and political correspondent Bill
Editor's plea for answers over steel crisis
Following a Steel Summit where industry bosses failed to turn up, the Evening Gazette’s leader comment yesterday was aimed directly at the executives of steel giant Corus. Steve Dyson, editor of the Teesside newspaper, chaired the meeting organised after Corus
Industry chiefs at steel summit hosted by Gazette
The Evening Gazette, Teesside, is holding a historic Steel Summit at Redcar Bowl on Sunday. The event has been organised following steel giant Corus’ shock announcement that it no longer needs steel produced at its Redcar works – and the
Editor to chair steel summit
The editor of the Evening Gazette in Middlesbrough is to chair a steel summit in the hope of finding out what the future holds for the industry in the area. The Corus steelworks in Teesside has been told that it
Kerb-crawlers to be named and shamed
The Evening Gazette has launched a campaign which will see it name and shame kerb-crawlers in a bid to stop them coming to Teesside. The newspaper launched its Kerb The Crawlers campaign as more than a dozen men were convicted