Looking back at some of our biggest campaigns and investigations

Your Yorkshire Evening Post boasts a long and proud history of campaigning stretching back 135 years.

- by Andrew Hutchinson

We're on your side - that's been the message to readers since the newspaper's first edition hit the streets back on September 1, 1890.

Our campaigns, investigations and fundraising appeals have long marked it out as one of the country's great crusading media titles.

Here are 9 of the best examples of its determination to fly the flag for good causes in the city we call home and beyond.

* The YEP's Half and Half Appeal is thought to be the longest-running newspaper charity campaign in the UK. Launched in 1982, it initially aimed to raise £250,000 to share equally between Leeds's Wheatfields and St Gemma's hospices.

We reached our fundraising target of £3 million in December 2019.

* The YEP began its Leeds Needs An Arena campaign following the huge success of two Robbie Williams concerts in Roundhay Park in 2006.