An appeal launched by The Journal, Newcastle, to help the victims of Africa’s famine has received the personal backing of Tony Blair. Responding to calls for help from North East aid workers, feature writer Anna Ralph went to Malawi and
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Be a Buddy, says Journal
The Newcastle Journal has launched a five-month campaign to stamp out bullying. The paper has joined forces with the region’s education chiefs to ask schoolchildren in Years 5 to 8 to help its campaign and Be a Buddy not a
Health group takes up Journal message
An in-depth special by the Journal into how the foot and mouth crisis affected the North of Britain has been taken up by a pressure group. The mental health group RuralMinds – dedicated to the well-being of people who live
Minister attacks calls for public inquiry
Rural Affairs Minister Alun Michael has hit out at the Newcastle Journal and its readers who are backing a campaign for a public inquiry into foot-and-mouth. So far 22,330 Journal readers have signed its petition calling for a full and
F&M campaigns stepped up
The Citizen is adding its weight to the calls for a public inquiry into foot and mouth disease. The county itself is now officially clear of the disease for the first time in six months. But the effects on local
Journal readers prove they have a heart
Big Hearted readers of the Carmarthen Journal have helped raise nearly £50,000 to put life saving heart defibrilators in police cars in the region. Thanks to the generosity of Journal readers, and funding from the British Heart Foundation, Dyfed Powys
Farming co-operative gives its backing to Journal campaign
The Newcastle Journal’s campaign for an independent public inquiry into the foot and mouth crisis has received the backing of one of Northumberland’s largest farming co-operatives. Cheviot Farmers will be circulating the paper’s petition forms to all of its 300
Journal to take on council in traffic plea
The Wells Journal has launched a campaign to bring a new traffic strategy to the Somerset cathedral city. The paper said that county councillors frequently promised action to ease traffic problems but nothing ever seemed to be done. In a
Journal to work for 'Jigsaw' appeal
The Newcastle Journal has put the final pieces in place and announced this year’s Millennium Fund charity. The St Oswald’s Hospice Jigsaw Appeal hopes to raise £5.1m to build a dedicated children’s unit at the hospice in Gosforth and run
'No reply' leads to campaign
Busy Tony Blair has yet to reply to an open letter from the North Devon Journal pleading for more help in the region to cope with the foot and mouth crisis. The letter from the newspaper was written on behalf
Homes for horses
Two horses have been rehomed after the North Devon Journal teamed up with a charity to appeal to the public for help. The Society for the Protection and Rehoming of Animals found itself inundated with calls after the story of
Journal campaign helps net education funding
A campaign in The Newcastle Journal has clinched almost £9m for education in the North-East. The campaign was started after The Journal reported how the Government was taking money from local council adult education funding and spending it elsewhere. The
Have a Heart boosted by AM's support
Wales’s Tory leader Nick Bourne has vowed to do all he can to support the Carmarthen Journal’s £50,000 Have A Heart campaign. The Assembly Member, who is an active member of the British Heart Foundation, has pledged his full support
Up with the news – for 310 years
Page 1 of 3 The more things change, the more they stay the same. Freelance journalist Simon Harvey looks at the life and times of the world’s oldest newspaper Amid national mob riots and disturbances over the lack of wheat
Former press man's book remembers life as a copy boy in the 1950s
Ex-Caters News Agency and Birmingham Post man looks back at how it all began
Decades of News
The Wells Journal and its sister papers are celebrating being 150 years old. This article, which first appeared in the celebration special edition, looks at the paper’s early days. Page 1 of 2 When the Wells Journal was founded in