IN the age of ‘fake news’, where can readers turn for honest, unbiased coverage of the issues affecting our communities? Who can we trust to fight to improve lives and take action on the problems blighting our neighbourhoods?

The Telegraph & Argus is joining forces with local and regional newspaper titles across the UK in a campaign to fight fake news.

As part of our commitment to continue to be the trusted voice for the Bradford community, the T&A has run a number of successful campaigns in recent years on key issues for our city.

Our Stop The Danger Drivers campaign is one of 28 shortlisted for this year’s Making A Difference award as part of Local Newspaper Week, which runs from Monday, May 15, to Sunday, May 21, with an online public vote to decide the winner.

When the T&A launched the campaign in November 2015, in a bid to curb the death toll on Bradford’s roads, we called for police to take specific action on bad driving in the district.

Two months later, police in Bradford began their Operation Steerside crackdown on dangerous drivers, inspired by our campaign.

Last week, we reported that a total of 8,783 drivers had been caught as part of Operation Steerside.

There were 3,266 motorists caught speeding, 2,990 caught not wearing a seatbelt while driving, 766 were spotted using a mobile phone at the wheel, 693 did not have insurance to drive, and there were 1,068 other road-related offences. A total of 754 vehicles have been seized.

Motorists’ dashcam footage capturing Bradford’s danger drivers has been flooding in to us at the T&A and to officers at Operation Steerside, as members of the public join the fight to make the city’s roads safer.

When the future of the National Media Museum was placed in doubt due to funding cuts in June 2013, the T&A joined forces with Bradford MPs, Council bosses and business leaders to save the flagship attraction via the Stop The Cut campaign.

A petition attracted more than 45,000 signatures in just three weeks, including star names such as Hollywood producer Martin Scorsese, Monty Python stars Michael Palin and Terry Jones, world famous artist David Hockney and legendary actor John Hurt.

The petition was handed in at the London headquarters of The Science Museum Group, the museum’s parent organisation, and a week later bosses vowed the museum would survive, leading to praise from all quarters for the “phenomenal response” generated by the T&A campaign.

In 2012, a Telegraph & Argus campaign aiming to win more dignity and respect for the elderly won praise from the then Prime Minister David Cameron.

Our long-running With Respect campaign was launched after reader Julie Farmer sent us a letter describing how her 85-year-old mother Betty West was “distressed, humiliated and left in pain” in the weeks before her death at Bradford Royal Infirmary.

In recent months, the T&A has reported on the opening of a new dementia-friendly ward at Bradford Royal Infirmary and a new electronic index, invented in Bradford, to more effectively assess elderly patients’ needs.

To vote for the T&A’s Stop The Danger Drivers campaign to win the Local Newspaper Week Making A Difference award, visit localnewspaperweek.co.uk/making-a-difference between Monday, May 15, and Sunday, May 21.