COMEDIANS Josh Widdicombe and Nish Kumar have spoken about their “heart-warming” experience in Bradford as part of filming for their popular TV show.

The comedy duo are diving back into the world of local news for series two of Hold The Front Page on Sky Max.

In the search for front page stories, the pair were put through their paces in newsrooms across the country - including the Telegraph & Argus.

The second series of the programme sees the duo attend local festivals and competitions, immerse themselves in communities, and even check out some frankly bizarre small-town attractions.

This time, they’re also hunting for news in Benidorm.

Speaking about his favourite story, The Mash Report’s Kumar said: “I loved the Bradford clean-up because it was a genuine good news story, community-organising, people trying to make where they live better. I found that story incredibly heart-warming.”

On the local newspaper industry, the 38-year-old added: “They’re really important parts of the local community. They’re not just sort of outsiders depicting what’s happening. They actually make themselves part of the fabric of all of these places.”

The Last Leg’s Widdicombe, 41, said: “It’s a real connection to your own community… So many of the people we talked to, it was about providing something for the local community to stick together, or helping the local community.

"It’s just about a sense of characteristic and pride… These people living in the same area together, whether that be Benidorm, or whether that be Dartmoor, you know, same thing.”

Other stops in the pair’s latest series include National Poo Museum, in the Isle of Wight, and a carnival.

Speaking about the hardest part of doing local journalism, Nish said: “Well, I think because of the way that funding models are being squeezed for local newspapers, now the pressure is on local journalists to write articles, take photos, do video content, be doing Facebook Lives, like, you sort of have to be print journalist, photographer, and broadcaster. That is really, really difficult.

“And it’s part of the reason why I think, mainly, what we come away from all of these thinking is: ‘God, that’s a hard job, and aren’t they good at it?”

Hold The Front Page series two launches on Wednesday, April 24, on Sky Max and NOW.