Staffordshire Newsletter

monkey bidness

monkey bidness

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I feel almost guilty about this, it is so like shooting fish in a barrel!
I have long suspected that there was no editor in charge at the NEwsletter, then the reporting staff was reduced to 6th-formers in detention and finally, this week, the paper has been assembled by the post-room newbie. When you have mislaid the penultimate page proofs why not renumber one of the sports pages and stick it in again. After all, that smiley chap in the vest (a.k.a. Sports Editor) obviously never actually comes into the office, so he won't notice, and any reader who has slogged through to the back of this Newspaper(?) is probably suffering from brain-fade. The joker who put this edition to bed could probably have turned this page upside-down and the owners would not have noticed!

I was becoming bored of life, now I just cannot wait for Thursday to come around again. Bring it on!:)




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citricsquid

citricsquid

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...sounds like the newsletter could be a good drinking game, although our hospitals are already having problems, might not help the towns image
 
Withnail

Withnail

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I can't say i'd noticed. Looking at it now i wonder whether it is some sort of subliminal comment on potential squad formation for the Rangers -

1 - 4 - 3 - 4

We could do with the extra player.
 
arthur

arthur

Nixon Garden Neatness
i just read it to see if anything exciting has happened in stafford but i'm not sure the newsletter would notice - if you send something that may be of inerest to the stafford public they never print it,
 
loveatfirstbite

loveatfirstbite

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my favourite front page was bassically 'COUPLE SMELLS' about a smelly couple from eccleshall not being allowed on a bus. the best story staffordshire had that week. the newsletter is designed simply to sell adverts, i cant believe people buy it!
 
V

VirtualCynic

A few posts under my belt
Hello everyone, first time post from a lifelong Staffordian. :)

The only reason I buy the Newsletter now is to see what they have to say about Stafford Hospital, as I work there. I am very pleased to see that the editor has given some mileage to the Support Stafford Hospital group. The Newsletter's continued championing (along with the Express and Star) of Julie Bailey and Cure the NHS has quite frankly left a bitter taste, and I'm glad the paper seems to be taking a more balanced view recently.

Having said that, I was an "unnamed" member of Stafford Hospital staff in a misreported headline story back in the 1990s... :/

But there have been some ridiculous headline stories in the paper in recent times, and the christmas cracker and "smelly couple" (yes, I remember that one too) are prime examples! :rolleyes:
 
Goldilox

Goldilox

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loveatfirstbite said:
my favourite front page was bassically 'COUPLE SMELLS' about a smelly couple from eccleshall not being allowed on a bus. the best story staffordshire had that week. the newsletter is designed simply to sell adverts, i cant believe people buy it!
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Having dealt with them in the Sainsbury's Starbucks when it existed, I can attest you certainly wouldn't want to be stuck in a confined space like a bus with them. Not sure whether it should have been front page news (although the couple involved seemed perversely proud), but my sympathy was totally with bus driver.
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
Agreed, I'd walked behind them a few times in places like the market, and **** me it wasn't pleasant. Saying that there are a few of them around town, one sits on the bench outside Home Bargains quite often and he really reeks. Another made me leave poundland once because I'd only nipped in to look at the books and he was stood too close to them - thought I was going to be sick!

I once lived with a smelly down south, he'd bath once a month. It made me and the other flatmate paranoid, as we figured if he couldn't tell he stank maybe we did too and couldn't tell either. Promised to inform each other if we ever got a wiff!
 
darts22

darts22

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The main reason I buy it is to read who has died, even knowing that more and people are being put off by the ever increasing charges. This weeks edition has hit an all time low, front to back read in 5 minutes.
 
citricsquid

citricsquid

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darts22 said:
The main reason I buy it is to read who has died ... has hit an all time low, front to back read in 5 minutes.
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proof of overpopulation, outrageous! we need more dead people!
 
Nicedave

Nicedave

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tek-monkey said:
........ Another made me leave poundland once because I'd only nipped in to look at the books and he was stood too close to them - thought I was going to be sick!.......

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Officious bugger as well as smelly then :teef:
 
gilbert grape

gilbert grape

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Newsletter surpassed themselves again today. This weeks star property was in Mayock Crescent, Castletown. They aint gonna find it round here!
 
Withnail

Withnail

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Also they wrote "to all intensive purposes", instead of "to all intents and purposes" - down with that sort of thing.
 
Withnail

Withnail

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Was anyone else a bit baffled by the concept of the Hospital losing £500,000 in income per month by not treating people, when they are not spending money on staffing costs etc during the closure?

Doesn't the latter cancel out the former? Or am i being a bit fick?
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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Withnail said:
Was anyone else a bit baffled by the concept of the Hospital losing £500,000 in income per month by not treating people, when they are not spending money on staffing costs etc during the closure?

Doesn't the latter cancel out the former? Or am i being a bit fick?
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Only if they're not still paying the people who would be there if it was open for business.

The 'income' is only pretend money for accountants to talk about.
 
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