The leader of Horsham district council is standing down this year and is expected to be replaced by Robert Nye who is currently the deputy leader and, presumably, not the same Robert Nye who wrote some excellent novels about Merlin, Faust and Mrs. Shakespeare. This story is illustrated on the County Times website with a […]
Entries Tagged as 'Local Papers'
A job I couldn’t do
January 21st, 2009 · Comments Off on A job I couldn’t do · Life, Music
In the Crawley Observer today there was a sort of advert for a sort of job.  Not really a job, because no payment is mentioned, more of a task. All I know is that I certainly couldn’t do it – reviewing local concerts for their online reviews section.
Tags: Concerts·Local Papers·Reviews
On the other hand…
January 13th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Life
…once you get over the unwieldy size, Frankenstein mish-mash of loose single pages and unfortunate section breaks, and the duplication with other papers the West Sussex County Times is not all bad.
Tags: Horsham·Local Papers
West Sussex County Times
January 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
The nearest I have to a New Year’s resolution is that I will be reading the West Sussex County Times (Horsham edition) more often this year. Yesterday I went out and bought a copy, and by coincidence the Crawley edition (called the Crawley Times) got delivered to my house as well. I had never read […]
Tags: Local Papers
Mean streets
January 7th, 2009 · Comments Off on Mean streets · Life
The streets of Horsham are not the place to be at the moment. Looking at the RSS feed for ‘Horsham Today’ here are eight headlines for consecutive stories within the last 12 hours: Power failure after car crash Vehicles collide at junction Crash near Bolney Car ends up on side Two cars in A24 collision […]
Tags: Local Papers·Roads
Hanging On The Telephone
October 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
Several times in the past I have banged on about damaged cable TV/telephone distribution boxes. I used to call Virgin Media to report them but gave up after being faced with a distinct lack of interest from them. The only time I would persevere now is if the one that feeds my house is open. […]
Burning Down The House
October 9th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Life
A small follow-up to what I wrote about that fire at the other end of Tollgate Hill the other day. The presence of dogs in the building got picked up by the papers before their print editions came out today and became the focus of the story, but that is not what is interesting me.
Tags: Language·Local Papers
Nothing But The Truth
October 7th, 2008 · Comments Off on Nothing But The Truth · Life
According to a ‘lifestyle survey’, as reported in the Crawley Observer: Students in West Sussex have admitted regularly binge drinking, taking drugs having sex and smoking. A follow-up survey into religious leanings and ursine toilet habits has also revealed the similarly shocking news that the Pope is a catholic and that bears shit in the […]
Tags: Local Papers·Schooldays
Dead Men Tell No Tales
October 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off on Dead Men Tell No Tales · Politics
Many thanks to Danivon for bringing to my attention this story in advance of the local papers coming out. It is quite a hilarious story really. The gist of it is:
Peace Sells…
September 7th, 2008 · 11 Comments · Politics
…but who’s buying? As the old Megadeth song goes. The question is, should we be making an issue of the fact that West Sussex county council’s pension fund invests in arms firms, including Haliburton?
Tags: Local Papers·WSCC
