A little surprised to find myself not only mentioned a couple of times in this week’s Crawley News but also to be quoted. I didn’t really think that , being an ex-councillor in Crawley they might be interested in what I have been up to. Must remember that. They harvested a quote from this blog [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Local Papers'
Both the Tories?
April 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Politics
Political parties don’t have the membership they once did, but I didn;t know things were this bad…
Tags: Local Papers·Tories
Mystery solved?
March 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
On Saturday I picked up a copy of The Resident, which is an independent local paper for Horsham. When I got home to read it I found that a quarter of one page was missing. It didn’t look like a freak production accident – I could see the tell-tale signs of scissor use.  Today I [...]
Tags: Local Papers
The mean streets of Worthing
March 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Life
Brighton’s Argus is always guaranteed to throw up a decent headline or two, and the best usually end up on the posters outside shops. I wonder if this headline will be one of them: Hunt for Worthing “poo thief”?
Tags: Crime/ASB·Local Papers
Throw away the key
February 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
The ‘Ifield Five’ were found guilty last week, and will be sentenced next month. It has dragged on for a long time now, with the original offence happening nearly a year ago.
Tags: Crime/ASB·Local Papers
I’m black and I’m proud
January 8th, 2010 · 13 Comments · Life
I am trying to resist the temptation to write about the weather, but really nothing much else is happening here. Today I decided to spend the day at home reviewing a huge pile of HR policies instead of walking either one mile or five miles to work (depending on whether the buses are running). I [...]
Tags: Broadfield·Local Papers·Weather·WSCC
Headline – fail or masterpiece?
December 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Life
Close the headline of the year competition – a late entrant has surely beaten off all comers… MPs call for jobs blow to be reversed (from the Peterborough Evening Telegraph)
Tags: Local Papers
Paranoid
December 14th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Life
A slight return to the song title subject lines for this one – though there is another Black Sabbath song that I could have chosen instead.  This is old news (it appeared in the Crawley Observer on Dec 2nd) but I never got round to writing about it at the time, being more interested in [...]
Tags: Blogger·Blogging·China·Local Papers
Burning bodies
December 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Life
The headline on the Argus website is “Sussex crematoriums to generate electricity” but the full URL for the story is http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/4779646.Sussex_crematoriums_to_generate_electricity_from_bodies/ I think I have a fairly rational, science-based readership here so I probably don’t need to labour the point about all the total point-missing in the story and comments.  Suffice to say, they are [...]
Tags: Local Papers·Science
Passing the test
December 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Life
The Crawley News is reporting (though not on its website) that it is harder to pass your driving test in Crawley than anywhere else in Sussex.  This is backed up by statistics showing that the pass rate is lower than elsewhere. Of course this could just mean that drivers in Crawley are worse (it might [...]
Tags: Driving·Local Papers
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