Staffordshire Newsletter

Vespa-NL

Vespa-NL

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I used to read the Stafford Newsletter online until they made it into a paid service.
Years ago it was still the better of the local papers that where around in Stafford.
Not that it was very good. The Stafford Post was just much worse.
Nowadays most of these newspapers are mostly advertisement,
and need to be for them to survive.
But there are good alternatives on the internet.
 
Withnail

Withnail

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Vespa-NL said:
The Stafford Post was just much worse.
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The Post is dead.

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Is it ok to speak ill of the dead?
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
I used some old papers from the shed the other day to light a fire and found a local paper called 'The Other One', does anybody remember it? The year wasn't obvious from the front page, but I've kept the copy to investigate further. I just have no recollection of it. The houses advertised in it were all local to this area..
 
Fonzie-NL

Fonzie-NL

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The post gone?!
Whatever will people use now in their cat litter box?? :o


Oh, yeah..... There is still the newsletter! :rolleyes:
 
Glam

Glam

Mad Cat Woman
Fonzie-NL said:
The post gone?!
Whatever will people use now in their cat litter box?? :o


Oh, yeah..... There is still the newsletter! :rolleyes:
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The free Express & Star.
 
johnny come lately

johnny come lately

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I read the front page story of the newsletter this week...then stumbled across this on their website. Surely either the paper or the rent a quote shopkeeper realise what was published just a few weeks before. Some of the quotes below - felt sorry for traffic wardens as seems they just can't win

"A traffic warden told me they had been instructed not to come down here. It now appears that’s been lifted but there have been no traffic wardens here for two months. We have gone from one extreme to another.” “Unfortunately when people are aware there are no traffic wardens, you get abusers, all-day parkers,” Graham Williamson, from The Shoe Tree, Newsletter December 2011

But....
“It’s been vicious in the last year. The traffic wardens jump on anybody very quickly. And in Mill Street it is all because people have parked in the wrong place. There is no doubt there has been an increase here. It is easy pickings.” Graham Williamson, from The Shoe Tree, Newsletter April 2012.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
Fonzie-NL said:
The post gone?!
Whatever will people use now in their cat litter box?? :o


Oh, yeah..... There is still the newsletter! :rolleyes:
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Round the Horne joke from 1965 - "Television replacing the newspapers? Never! You can't spread Robin Day* out on the floor for the dog - however much you might like to.."

Nothing changes.

* Although, I might replace with Jeremy Vine for today's audience.
 
johnny come lately

johnny come lately

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Strangely enough my cat was also put off by this poor quality reporting and has decided to poo elsewhere. I interchange litter tray with free Express and star and occasional Newsletter. I will let her be the judge...although she is worryingly comfortable with Jeremy Clarkson's column in The Sun
 
johnny come lately

johnny come lately

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Gramaisc said:
I suspect that they might sometimes hang on to the new news in the hope that might part with some money to satisfy your craving for the latest non-story..
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Just had another read of the online story. A whole story based around the 'mystery disappearance' of traffic wardens. then at the end there's a quote from council which says... "While the county council was investigating whether the signage met the guidelines we decided it wasn’t appropriate to be issuing tickets in that area."

So mystery solved then...another non story
 
Andreas Rex

Andreas Rex

Banned for smiling
I'm hearing unconfirmed reports from several reliable sources that Staffordshire Newsletter has been bought by The Sentinel Group and operations will move to Stoke. Look forward to fewer and fewer local stories and ultimately the complete death of the Newsletter when The Sentinel close it because they mainly want the market share. We'll then start being offered 'The Stafford Sentinel' or something, which I suspect will have less and less relevance to Stafford each time I 'read' it, very much like the Stafford E&S.
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
Mine just sit in the porch for a few weeks til I put them in the recycling, I find approx every three weeks I have a bin full of crap.
 
littleme

littleme

250,000th poster!
I read the RSS feeds from the newsletter, they are very few and far between. I think I find more information about whats happening in Stafford here on the Forum!
 
John Marwood

John Marwood

I ♥ cryptic crosswords
Andreas Rex said:
I'm hearing unconfirmed reports from several reliable sources that Staffordshire Newsletter has been bought by The Sentinel Group and operations will move to Stoke. Look forward to fewer and fewer local stories and ultimately the complete death of the Newsletter when The Sentinel close it because they mainly want the market share. We'll then start being offered 'The Stafford Sentinel' or something, which I suspect will have less and less relevance to Stafford each time I 'read' it, very much like the Stafford E&S.
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Kind of correct Mr Rex - In fact the Northcliffe Group ( Sentinel ) and Illiffe Group ( Newsletter ) have been bought up by Local World - a consortium led by former Daily Mirror boss David Montgomery and other shareholders - including Northcliffe, formerly owned by The Daily Mail and Trinity Mirror, owners of The Daily Mirror and The Birmingham Post and also the delightful former Conservative Party Chairman :barf: Lord Ashcroft ( confused yet? I am )
 
Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt

Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt

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Print media (of all types, local, national, international etc) is on the decline, not just in the UK but worldwide. The internet and instant access to social media etc isn't going anywhere & so it is an irreversible process. This is not neccesarily a good thing, look at the issue recently with Lord MacAlpine. We now have a very dangerous situation whereby the laws on slander and misrepresentation are not fit for purpose for this new media world and are based around the increasingly outdated printed media. You can almost say anything you want about a person and ruin their reputation in a stroke without checks and balances. No longer innocent until proved guilty it is now the total opposite.
 
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