{"id":11597,"date":"2015-05-13T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmediauk.org\/making-a-difference-winner-to-be-revealed-tomorrow\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T10:14:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T09:14:49","slug":"making-a-difference-winner-to-be-revealed-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmediauk.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/13\/making-a-difference-winner-to-be-revealed-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a Difference Winner to be Revealed Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

The winner of the Making a Difference<\/a> public vote for the best local newspaper campaign will be revealed at the Society of Editors Regional Press Awards tomorrow (Friday) after thousands of votes were cast.<\/p>\n

Voting closed last night after newspapers, MPs, celebrities and members of the public got behind Making a Difference during Local Newspaper Week (11-17 May) to support local newspaper campaigning and the difference local press can make for communities.  <\/p>\n

Prime Minister David Cameron told the Northumberland Gazette<\/a> that he believed local newspapers were “part of the social glue that holds communities together.”<\/p>\n

“I think local newspapers play a really key role,” he said. “It’s not just the vital information, the sports results and the local news, local newspapers are part of the social glue that holds our communities together.<\/p>\n

“They are vitally important in our democracy because they challenge local councils, they challenge politicians, they ask the questions and they stimulate the debate. For all those reasons, local papers play a great role.<\/p>\n

“And I’d add something to that; I talk about the Big Society where we encourage volunteering, philanthropy and people taking action in their local communities.<\/p>\n

“Local newspapers do as much of that as anybody, encouraging the heroes and heroines that make local communities, like where we are here in Alnwick, so strong.”<\/p>\n

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The DerbyTelegraph’s Save a Life campaign which is up for an award but needs votes! http:\/\/t.co\/Vy4KKZpmaO<\/a><\/p>\n

— Robbie Savage (@RobbieSavage8) May 13, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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