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UK regional press campaigns

Every day regional newspapers up and down the land go into battle on behalf of their readers. On this page you will find an archive of the hundreds of stories which HoldtheFrontPage has carried about newspapers fighting for their communities.

Press campaign to fund health worker hits target
Cash will fund charity's mission to find vaccine for the disease

Newspaper's appeal fund boosts Haiti relief effort
Reporter flies to earthquake zone to see how cash is being spent

Thousands march to save A&E in press campaign
Battle to preserve local hospital services takes to the streets

North-East daily launches fight for region's identity
Journal campaign highlights need for unified voice

Daily hits £500,000 target in cancer centre appeal
Building work set to begin in the autumn on new facility

Valentine's Day Haiti appeal raises more than £500
Is love in the air for reporter and competition winner?

Reporter recovers vicar's £150 clamping fine
Citizen continues it battle to beat rogue car clampers

Echo flushed with success in city toilets battle
Daily ensures readers don't loos-e their fight for facilities

Paper wins back £13,000 in parking fines for readers
Council admits Christmas cock-up after pressure from Archant weekly

Valentine's date on offer with local press reporter
Haiti relief effort to be boosted by romeo donations

'Festive Fugitives' campaign scores trio of arrests
Multimedia fight to find criminals brings results for police

Paper's cancer appeal reaches fundraising milestone
'Phenomenal response' as campaign aims for new breast cancer unit

Echo in fresh internet safety campaign move
Paper prints 15,000 cards to be handed out to young people

Daily's ten-year care appeal tops £1m mark
Long-running millennium campaign reaches milestone

Catch-a-criminal campaign puts ten behind bars
Record arrests after Echo's annual festive manhunt

Target toppled for weekly's toy appeal
Recorder beats festive deadline for community project

Telegraph's cash bid to help poor communities
Vital purification kits drying up as charity sees donations plummet

'Fantastic response' to weekly's A&E campaign
Readers respond in fight to save hospital unit

Weeklies provide Christmas boost for Our Boys
JP titles drum up community support for troops on front line

Echo's campaign sees another boost for disabled teen
Dragon forgoes anniversary tradition to help meningitis victim

Daily's staff donate cash instead of cards
Bid to boost to fundraising appeal for local hospice

Daily's two-year cancer mission hits £1m mark
Works begins on new unit for specialist teenage cancer care

Weekly secures village's first-ever Christmas Tree
Gazette puts the heart back into Harefield

Paper offers free job ads in credit crunch campaign
PM's praise for 'Bounce Back' initiative

Paper claims victory in 'safe surfing' campaign
New scheme heralds win in Echo's battle for better web security

Regional dailies rally behind X-Factor hopefuls
Papers show support as competition reaches climax

Journalist's campaign receives £165,000 backing
Reporter's dying wish takes next step as scheme continues

Paper's bid to buy vital life-saving equipment
Campaign aims to supply tools to cut cardiac deaths

Newspaper hosts service to remember missing chef
Event to raise charity funds and keep in mind absent friends

Post launches calendar hunt for city's most wanted
Advent becomes 'Badvent' in return of seasonal campaign

Daily's bid to raise £450,000 for hospice extension
Mercury hoping to secure £50,000 in run-up to Christmas

Yorkshire daily takes campaign to the big screen
Film premiere latest move in recession-beating drive

Former football star backs weekly's Christmas appeal
Papers gear up for festive season with gifts collection

Campaigning editor backs mum in custody fight
Stan flies back to UK to hand-deliver petition to No 10

Celebrity lots at Evening Post fundraising auction
£500,000 target comes closer for new cancer centre

Prince William backs local newspaper campaign
Project launched in memory of fighter pilot

Weekly's £250,000 fundraiser to build new cancer unit
Advertiser calls on readers to back campaign for new specialist centre

Paper launches bid to oust disgraced MP
Expenses row politician should go now says weekly

Newspaper auctions signed Michael Jackson programme
Charity appeal receives huge boost with surprise donation

Journalist's education campaign goes nationwide
Pilot project to be rolled out across UK

Bring home our gold says Midlands weekly
Campaign launched for return of Saxon treasures

Reporter gives birth in unit she's campaigning for
Journalist gains first-hand experience of hospital's baby care

Newspapers reach target in £56,000 Santa appeal
Just weeks after launch under threat Lapland trip is secured

Newspaper launches £2.5m breast cancer appeal
Bid to build specialist unit swings in life

Newspapers team up to send sick kids to Santa
Titles' race against time to help hard-up charity make Lapland trip

Memorial funded by newspaper readers is unveiled
Town parade as Journal campaign comes to fruition

Police praise for newspaper's drink-drive campaign
Telegraph continues to name and shame motorists caught over the limit

Guardian's campaign to honour forgotten war dead
Paper fights to include heroes of WWI on Debt of Honour

Teenager heads for London 2012 as Echo smashes target
Regional daily achieves fundraising goal within days

Newspaper staff in 13-mile charity trek
Hundreds raised towards bid to fund medical researcher

Mission accomplished for Gazette campaign
Paper organises 7,000-signature petition against closure plan

Echo backs £10,000 campaign to buy artificial limbs
Newspaper's plea to help teenager swim in 2012 Paralympics

Evening News campaign to honour dead fireman
Fight to secure Queen's Gallantry Medal

Weekly's cancer appeal tops £80,000 mark
Bid to refurbish unit storms ahead

Drunk drivers named and shamed in new campaign
Telegraph relaunches long-running bid to cut drink-driving

Newspaper campaign funds town's new memorial
Project aims to honour all those who died in combat

Press plea to appeal hit-and-run sentence fails
Attorney General says Court of Appeal would not increase jail term

Chronicle campaign helps save threatened club
FA reverses membership decision after fans' pressure

Positive press campaign wins national plaudits
Archant's Kids Are Alright up for two Justice Awards

Newspaper campaign forces council art sell-off
Art lovers send hate mail to 'Philistine' editor

Mail appeal brings out local for returning soldiers
Over 30,000 respond to plea to support military parade

Campaign wins increased payouts for pensioners
Daily celebrates plea to old folk to claim what's theirs

Post campaign prompts hit-and-run sentence review
Readers flood Attorney General with stricter term requests

South Coast daily steps up bid to honour Henry
Campaign relaunched after death of world's oldest man

North-East photographer's life-saving legacy
Journalist's death sparked successful health care campaign

Press campaign kept OAP alert to bogus visitor
Success as Gazette strives to keep pensioners safe

Guardian takes hospital charges fight to Parliament
Thousands back weekly's bid to 'Scrap the Fees'

Citizen declares 'war' on rogue clampers
Bucks title bids to force government action

Daily's bid to raise £200,000 for cancer charity
Plans to double number of nursing hours in North West

Regional daily joins hunt for missing Claudia
Paper makes five-minute video of father's appeal

Campaigning editor welcomes knife crime move
Murder sentences could effectively double

Echo fights to save hospital burns units
Fear of brain drain from 'world class' centres

Donations top £40,000 in newspaper's cancer appeal
Specialist unit needs £250,000 for major overhaul

Newspaper group boosts charities to tune of £2.6m
Press coverage encouraged reader donations

City turns Blue again for cancer fundraiser
News resurrects event in memory of young footy fan

Paper's plea to safeguard thousands of jobs
Over 5,000 people back Facebook campaign

Post's bid to speed up links to capital
Regional title lobbies for £10bn boost to economy

Weekly newspaper raises £100,000 in under a year
Baby care unit to benefit major makeover thanks to News

Newspaper campaign praised for drop in accidents
Injuries down by a fifth thanks to weekly's safety message

'Buy local' message spreads to Worcester
News is latest daily title to launch campaign

Regional reporter to visit tsunami-hit island
Emergency housing programme was backed by newspaper

News staying positive in new campaign
Gordon Brown backs weekly's bid to boost local morale

Tens of thousands back MEN hospital appeal
Bid to recoup £6.5m attracts big-name supporters

Newspaper raises £25,000 in less than a week
Readers respond to appeal for baby's vital eye op

Echo raises £14,000 in a fortnight
Campaign will buy vital life-prolonging treatment

Journalists fight to stay in city centre office
Wakefield Express could be moving out of town

Jobs campaign launched during redundancy dispute
Paper aims to keep city working as it axes jobs

Waste company warning after newspaper exposé
Environment Agency investigation followed Echo revelations

Victory for paper in hospital closure secrecy row
Information commissioner raps health trust

Editor hits back at union in "hypocrisy" row
NUJ calls on Telegraph to 'change track'

Newspapers continue fight to beat the crunch
A round-up of the latest recession-busting campaigns

Paper's bid to help recover lost Icelandic millions
MEN boosts cancer hospital's fight to get back £6.5m

Brown praises paper's regional flights campaign
Aviation minister to meet local MP over issue

Weekly editor named fundraiser of the year
Archant celebrates its charity heroes

Newspaper petitions Number 10 over train contract
Plus: Record entry for equine journalism awards, new role for crime reporter – and more news in brief

Praise for press campaign nearly ten years on
Journal helped win public inquiry on blood imports

North East daily helps boost local tourism
Visitor numbers up during February half-term

Paper steps up campaign to find postman's killers
Evening Leader continues fight to end six-year mystery

More newspapers fight back against the downturn
A round-up of credit crunch campaigns in the local press

Herald 'bites back' against the credit crunch
Devon daily highlights local companies in new campaign

Regional daily's bid to force government u-turn
Telegraph launches campaign over lost train contract

David Cameron backs paper's energy bills campaign
Plus: Former assistant editor passes abstinence anniversary and more news in brief

Press campaign to end six-year murder mystery
Evening Leader joins police in hunt for postman's killer

Sportswear appeal raises £10,000 for Special Olympics
Mercury readers help dress the best of the East Midlands

Newspaper's £40,000 bid to fund meningitis research
Gazette launches appeal to find vital vaccine cure

Gary Lineker backs local press campaign
Plus: PA chief speaks at publishing debate, former North Wales photographer dies – and more news in brief

Mail comes to readers' aid with money-saving tips
Brum daily goes straight for wallet with new campaign

Newspaper urges readers to shop local
Mercury issues call to 'Support Your County'

Premiership clubs back paper's bid to beat downturn
Journal urges readers to 'Think North East First'

Echo launches bid to help readers back to work
Newspaper feature hopes to help unemployed

Press road safety campaign DVD goes national
MPs vow to send safety message into constituencies

Newspaper gives away job ads to beat downturn
Sunderland Echo galvanises community against recession

Big screen returns after newspaper campaign
New trial movie nights after five years without films

Trinity titles take Jaguar fight to Downing Street
Five newspapers combine in bid to safeguard company's future

Press petition to save A&E heads for Downing Street
Editor 'stunned' after 15,000 back Mercury campaign

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