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Paper tackles industry

A plea to halt the carnage suffered by dolphins at the hands of Britain’s fishing fleets is being made by a south-west newspaper. The Western Morning News claims that dead and dying dolphins are being washed up on beaches every

Petition takes to streets

A campaign backed by the Western Morning News is being taken to the streets to provoke more support. Elderly American Betsy van Warmer and her son Mark are campaigning to the Home Office to let him stay to care for

Papers team up to demand action

A petition demonstrating anger over the Government’s failure to hold a public inquiry into foot and mouth has been delivered to Tony Blair. The huge petition, signed by 146,500 people, was handed over at Downing Street. It calls on the

Parliamentary praise for 'buy local' campaign

The Western Morning News has been praised in Parliament for its campaign to promote local food and produce. The campaign is an attempt to reverse the negative effects on the economy and the countryside suffered through foot and mouth disease.

"Overwhelming" Buy Local result

The brains behind the Westcountry’s Buy Local campaign have admitted the success of the initiative has overwhelmed them. Dozens of shops and almost 100 restaurants have joined the Western Morning News-led push to get local firms to use local produce

Editor's local produce plea

A newspaper that has campaigned for farmers and the wider rural community during the devastating foot and mouth crisis has opened its campaign on a new front. The Western Morning News has launched a massive campaign to achieve a huge

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

90,000 sign papers' petitions for public inquiry

More than 90,000 people have told the Government it must review its decision not to hold a full public inquiry into the foot and mouth crisis by signing a petition from four regional newspapers. The petition, jointly launched by the

WMN wants home-grown food back on the menu

The Western Morning News is preparing to launch a major campaign encouraging people to support local food producers. A strategy for the campaign will be drawn up next week, when senior figures from the Westcountry food industry, together with MPs

Strong call for inquiry

More than 43,000 people have now signed petitions on foot and mouth disease which are being run by the Western Morning News, the Newcastle Journal, Western Mail, Farmers Weekly and Horse & Hound. They are calling for a full public

Daily Press on board inF&M protest

The Western Daily Press has launched a new campaign calling for a full public inquiry into the foot-and-mouth epidemic. It follows moves by the Western Morning News, the Newcastle Journal and the Western Mail, which have linked up to put

Could the PM resist this pressure?

Western Morning News readers have overwhelmingly backed calls for an independent inquiry into the foot and mouth crisis. More than 2,300 people cast their vote in a phone poll with 97 per cent demanding an inquiry. Just 61 people voted

Government's Wellie let-down

The editor behind the Westcountry’s Green Wellie Appeal is fuming after being told funds raised to relieve people affected foot and mouth will not be match-funded by the Government. Western Morning News readers have been raising money for the appeal,

WMN supports campaign to save healthy animals

The Western Morning News is supporting a campaign by TV personality Noel Edmonds to change the Ministry of Agriculture’s “aggressive” culling policy over foot and mouth. The Heart of Devon campaign calls for the end to the unnecessary cull of

An £8,000 close shave

TV presenter Noel Edmonds has finally had a close shave on live TV – thanks to the readers of a Devon newspaper. The former host of Telly Addicts volunteered to have his beard cut off if readers of the Western

Westcountry appeal tops£1m mark

The Western Morning News is celebrating after its campaign to aid West Country farmers passed yet another landmark – smashing £1m barrier. The Green Wellie campaign has generated the biggest sum of money raised by any regional newspaper appeal. The