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Christmas lights campaign gathers momentum
HTFP story generates support for Epsom Guardian campaign

Scrooge not welcome as paper bids to light up Xmas
Epsom Guardian attempts to restore festive cheer and end five years of Christmas darkness

Deputy editor's private audience with Prince Charles
Tamworth Herald newsman shows royal couple around important World War II exhibition

Press campaign to fight rising tide of knife crime
Argus features affected families and highlights dramatic statistics as part of campaign

Newspaper's Dump It! campaign forces rethink on contaminated waste plant
Nuneaton Tribune drums up mass support among community opposed to plant near homes and schools

Newspapers rally to fight Post Office closures
Birmingham and Bedfordshire titles campaign to keep community facilities up and running

Journalist's bone marrow fight takes new leap forward
Adrian Sudbury's campaign for donor education sees tangible results for new school year

Newspaper fights to keep grandmother in UK
Children left motherless by accident could lose main carer after Home Office decision

Victory in newspaper's marine protection campaign
Scotsman's 'Save our Seas' fight sees new proposals for sealife safety

Reporter's dying mission reaches House of Lords
Adrian Sudbury's fight for bone marrow education goes to Upper House

Keen-as-mustard reporters launch condiment campaign
Hot news as evening paper fights to preserve Colman's legacy in city

Paper aims to drive home Post Office closure message
Birmingham Mail plans to deliver reader petition to PM on campaign bus

Regional paper celebrates rugby appeal success
Coventry Telegraph helps kick city's rugby club into next season

Newspaper's rugby club appeal raises £50k in two weeks
But 'remarkable achievement' may still not be enough to save Coventry RFC

Campaign to free Bay detainee wins plaudits
Weekly helped re-unite prisoner with family

Paper ponders legal bid to block hazardous waste plant
Hundreds of readers back Nuneaton weekly's campaign against council planning move

MP's bone marrow clinic for dying reporter's campaign
Adrian Sudbury's fight for education goes into the heart of Westminster today

Newspaper's £100,000 appeal to save rugby club
Trinity Mirror title has just two weeks to help keep rugby club alive

999 audio innovation boosts online Argus bid to outlaw hoaxers
Website used audio of the real calls and urged readers to name and shame the culprits

Local press helps execution-threatened Iraqi journalist win extended UK stay
Deaths of colleagues and threat to family led man to flee home country

Prime minister's support for Spitfire monument plan delights the Echo
Gordon Brown is backing a regional newspaper's campaign to create a landmark monument

Norfolk paper's campaign attracts over 10,000 signatures
Evening News hosts successful public meeting

Evening Post relaunches its anti-knife campaign
Reading daily prompted into action after fatal stabbing of local teenager

Three weeklies work together to secure air ambulance
Target reached less than a year after campaign began

Newspaper campaign to fix broken town
Leighton Buzzard News will take to task those responsible for lack of investment

York newspaper's appeal for cash brings high dependency unit to hospital
£300,000 Guardian Angels Appeal transforms the way that the sickest, most vulnerable children are treated

Save Sven campaign goes multimedia with the Manchester Evening News
Wide coverage planned as MEN makes use of a variety of media to put pressure on footy club's owner

'Death of journalism' debate at press freedom day
Key speakers lined up for debate, Telegraph hands out free sweets and more news in brief

Victory for Surrey weekly in deportation row with Home Office
Astonishing U-turn after eight weeks of campaigning by the press

Press takes on role of champion of locally-sourced produce
Initiative is to encourage readers to explore what is on offer locally

Asylum seeker's campaign may turn on newspaper's backing
Former Iranian professional footballer Afshin Azizian is launching a fresh appeal to remain in the UK

Journalists mark end of press campaign with huge litter pick
Weston-super-Mare gets a spring clean from Archant reporters

'Ultra' week ahead for newspaper execs on 120km desert challenge
Herald news chiefs hope to add to thousands already raised for hospice charity

PO closure campaign gets 7,000 signatures from Mail readers
Human interest stories boost power of newspaper campaign as petition is delivered to Downing Street

Newspaper campaigns for rape crisis centre
Echo bid to secure specialist centre backed by police, victims and charities

Football shirt fever for newspaper charity campaign
Evening Star's award-winning initiative gathers pace ahead of big derby match

Readers donate £12,000 in six weeks for newspaper appeal
New Air Ambulance could be on its way for East Midlands after Times campaign

Deputy editor's book charts ten-year fight to honour 'forgotten' war hero
Incredible story remained a secret ... until it landed on Phil's desk

Death toll among young drivers targeted in new press campaign
Road safety campaign will also deliver a new car to one lucky P&J reader

Repeated bridge strikes prompt newspaper safety campaign
Readers' help requested to 'out the culprits' crashing into town's bridges

Return to Sender campaign launched after post office blow hits London
New battle as latest round of planned cuts is revealed

Royals pull-out as Post's Keepy Uppy helps bid for football safety
Fans set to hold poster aloft in support of relegation dogfight club

Press photographer injured in football ground dugout
Ipswich Town player crashes into snapper, 300 readers back Telegraph campaign and more news in brief

Newspaper celebrates two-year fight for free roads
Public backed Courier campaign to remove last remaining toll charges in Scotland

Boxers unite with newspaper campaign to combat bullying
Trainers, charity and MP all back Star's new fight against bullies

Mail campaign sees thousands fall silent for anniversary of trawler tragedy
Triple Trawler Tragedy "not consigned to history" as reporter's idea results in major commemoration

Manchester journalist wins six-year fight against deportation
Fellow journalists fought for investigative reporter who fled to Britain after exposing corruption in Pakistan

News editor's 10,000ft leap for hospice appeal cash
News Shopper's Helen Backway overcomes fear for first ever skydive

News staff show their hearts of gold as charity haul is doubled by company
More than 70 Archant staff had their fundraising efforts matched at the end of last year

Community campaigns to be celebrated during Local Newspaper Week
Editors encouraged to submit the best causes fought on behalf of their readers

Observer appeal beats charity target by £3,500
Chichester Observer helps dreams come true for seriously and terminally-ill children

Is newsroom integration working? Major players to debate issues
Plus PPA handbook is published, oatcake protest from The sentinel - and more news in brief

Newspaper campaigners visit No 10 to fight post office closures
The Press has sent a delegation to Downing Street to present a petition to Gordon Brown

Weekly newspaper series sets 100 per cent accuracy target
Campaign calls on readers to step forward and tell the editor if it's not quite right

Masthead goes green as Scotsman aims to make a difference
Serious issue prompts unusual move as paper makes environmental pledge

Five major charities benefit from newspaper's year of giving
Year of Giving Trust divides Journal-generated £400,000 between worthy causes

Major conference staged by newspaper aims to reduce death toll
MPs, business leaders and safety experts network to boost Telegraph campaign

Scathing editorial after Post is gagged by legal process
Teenage flasher remains anonymous; Argus video sparks investigation and more news in brief

Newspaper plea raises thousands for the elderly
North-west community rallies to give £17,000 for a warmer winter

Press contact with bereaved brings insight into campaign to cut road deaths
Hereford Times launches bid to cut fatalities on local roads

Newspaper's £1m appeal aims to help kids through confusion of bereavement
Worcester News launches major appeal with daily features, web pages - and a plea for help

Free Press names campaign after council leader
Successful fight for fair car parking charges

News editor plans 10,000ft plunge for charity
Daunting task to help raise £3m for new London hospice

Paper's campaign helps secure new billion-pound academy
The South Wales Echo launched a petition and printed coupons to win reader support

Newspaper wages war on clampers after run-in with parking firm
Ealing Times sets up campaign when one of the company's staff was stung for £1,140

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