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You think it's bad in Muswell Hill? See how it's all kicking off in the sticks this week: http://www.thisiskent.co.uk
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Dan | Homepage | 09.05.09 - 9:02 a.m. | #
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I like the major story from Barnet and Potters Bar. No one being killed by the Oak tree is such an amazing story its taken a week before its reported.
Must have been waiting for Kodak to post the developed film back.
Steve Barker | Homepage | 09.05.09 - 9:51 a.m. | #
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I really, really am not going to miss these things at all. And they don't represent 'real' local communities at all - that's a school, a social club, even just a few neighbours - but artificial blobs of space which are too big to be personal and too small to be, erm, important.
On the other hand, how come the South Lodnon Press gets an unexpectedly cheering headline? Ours is 90\\% murder news...
Dominic Self | Homepage | 09.05.09 - 12:02 p.m. | #
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Thx for this, I didnt even know of the Haringey independent! I'll bookmark it.
Should tell us why there was an helicopter hovering above my house all night on Wednesday or Tuesday...
Flo | 09.05.09 - 12:36 p.m. | #
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One of the best is one of the smallest, & the only true independent one- the "Southwark News", every Thursday. It's over twenty years old now, & I've been a reader since day one!
Rodders | Homepage | 09.05.09 - 2:44 p.m. | #
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They're just vehicles to carry advertising. I read my local, my ex-local and my ex-ex local one as e-editions. That's three times the exposure to the advertising than me forking out 45p for a paper one. Makes sense to the newspapers, surely?
Bina | Homepage | 09.05.09 - 3:35 p.m. | #
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Regarding the East London Advertiser, would being 'Paper of the Year' be news to anyone but the editor of the newspaper himself, reminding him that's he's doing an awfully good job?
Nonetheless, local papers can often be a good source of information. It's often fascinating to see what the people that live in your area are getting up to.
Andrewh | 09.05.09 - 6:34 p.m. | #
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it's your fault.
ellie | Homepage | 09.05.09 - 7:14 p.m. | #
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Of course, there is THE local London newspaper in the form of the Evening Standard - and I would not be at all saddened if that went down the plughole!
Marc | 09.05.09 - 9:17 p.m. | #
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And it seems that another mainstay of newspaper income has been totally lost with the advent of craigslist and ebay. I was shocked to see my local newspaper only has 2 pages of want ads where there used to be at least 24 pages before.
There is no comparing the efficiency of want ads in online vs. newsprint. Online is faster, better and free.
Newspapers should have chosen to charge for their online editions when they first started out online... like the New York Times.
I agree the loss to publishing is a pity. But local neighborhood newspapers seem to be surviving for some reason.
Jon | Homepage | 09.05.09 - 11:07 p.m. | #
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You can't beat the king of the local papers, the Crouch End Daily Twit.
Johnny Topaz | 09.05.09 - 11:14 p.m. | #
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my local paper is being killed off by the local council's "independent" paper...
since when have local council's been in the newspaper publishing business - something to do with propaganda i suspect...
Tim | 10.05.09 - 11:58 a.m. | #
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I do buy the Romford Recorder (mainly to see if anyone I know is in the Court File!). However like almost all local papers it is a sounding board for whingers, NIMBYs and Daily Mail types.
Romford got a shiny new state-of-the-art hospital (the Queens) a couple of years ago, replacing the falling-to-bits Oldchurch. But was this welcomed in the pages of the Recorder? Oh no, whingers reigned supreme in its pages - they can't find their way about, the buses don't stop in the right place, the tea shop is too expensive...I don't recall reading one positive article about this wonderful new multi-million-pound facility (and no, I don't work for the NHS or the council).
Also (until the housing crash) there were lots of letters, generally from people in large houses in Gidea Park, moaning about the amount of flats springing up in the town centre. The fact that they were secure in their 1/2M pound houses, but the only property even the relatively well-off new buyers could afford was a small flat in a new-build development seemed to escape them.
kenromford | 11.05.09 - 10:22 p.m. | #
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