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More Dross in The Newbury Weekly News, Stuff Printed in this paper is often not news... |
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Nov 12 2015, 12:53 AM
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QUOTE (Blake @ Nov 11 2015, 11:09 PM) But it's not news though is it??
The Newbury Weekly News has managed for decades without running this pointless tut so there is no justification for it now. I think it will lose far more readers than it will ever gain. The focus needs to be on news. It's supposed to be a newspaper! To coin a phrase: and your evidence is? Do you think newsworthy items are making way for these articles? I doubt that is the case. Managing decades without running this, does not guarantee that it could continue to do so. It is a logical fallacy. A newspaper is not simply a 'newspaper'; it is an advertising medium too. So your premise is false from the off.
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Nov 12 2015, 06:28 AM
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QUOTE (Blake @ Nov 11 2015, 11:09 PM) But it's not news though is it??
The Newbury Weekly News has managed for decades without running this pointless tut so there is no justification for it now. I think it will lose far more readers than it will ever gain. The focus needs to be on news. It's supposed to be a newspaper! So by your reckoning, Sainsbury's should stop selling petrol because they are a grocer and should focus on food? As for losing readers, given that the number and size of these specials have increased of late, the facts in terms of sales stats. clearly suggest otherwise! There is competition so you have a choice.
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Nov 12 2015, 05:51 PM
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QUOTE (Nothing Much @ Nov 12 2015, 12:06 PM) I don't know OTE. Iwas drained...sorry it was drained.
There was a body strapped to a shopping trolley found about a month later. It was at the other end of a 2 mile tunnel at Kings Cross.Normal for Islington.
I never would have guessed that it was brick lined at the base.I will upload a photo. ce I've been trying to work out where this came from CE, then I remembered! Your comment about your local Regents Canal. So why in a thread about decent local press? Why, of course, you must get the Camden Free Press, a real gem and dished out free.
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Nov 13 2015, 12:01 AM
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QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Nov 12 2015, 07:00 PM) I find The Metro just about the best paper of them all, but if you cannot make it in London, then you won't make it anywhere! I was up at the Electric Ballroom the other week! They're also free on every train ever. Lol.
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Nov 13 2015, 12:41 PM
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QUOTE (James_Trinder @ Nov 13 2015, 10:22 AM) The Metro is a good read on the train but unfortunately since it is owned by the same company as the Daily Mail, their reporting can be slightly biased at times. When travelling by train in and around London the Evening Standard is also now free, which is a bonus. The Evening Standard is good too.
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Sep 30 2016, 07:05 AM
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Thought I'd bump this one with the hilarious headline on the main page at present "Failing to look, sudden breaking, alcohol and illness have all been factors in crashes along an eight mile stretch north of Newbury" The same error is also used further down in the text Where do they find these "professional" journalists? Unless of course they mean the use of the word "breaking" in it's correct sense. Possibly the road or a vehicle suddenly breaking up in which case I stand corrected!! EDIT. Corrected now. Someone on NWN does read this forum!!
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Sep 30 2016, 09:15 AM
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QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Sep 30 2016, 09:14 AM) I suspect the definition of words like break and brake will merge, or verbs like brake will die out. I don't.
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Sep 30 2016, 12:33 PM
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QUOTE (je suis Charlie @ Sep 30 2016, 10:15 AM) I don't. I'll alert the media. The meaning and spelling of words is fluid and many have done this and as such I believe for that reason break and brake could too.
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Sep 30 2016, 03:32 PM
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QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Sep 30 2016, 01:33 PM) The meaning and spelling of words is fluid and many have done this Undoubtedly true I read this and can easily come up with examples - of words gaining new meanings and of spelling altering - but I can't think of an example where two homonyns have merged in spelling and meaning.
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Sep 30 2016, 08:37 PM
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QUOTE (spartacus @ Sep 30 2016, 09:08 PM) It's lazy English and it's ignorant though. This is a newspaper not just someone's blog. Yeah, "leave it, it's just part of language evolving naturally" is one way of responding, but there are enough examples of people thinking it's correct to type 'would of done' or 'could of done' and before you know it that will be accepted and in a newpaper article... Newbury firefighters had to bale out a flooded building the other day. Incidentally, the Grauniad's style guide agrees with the NWN's usage - except bail comes from the French baille - bucket.
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Sep 30 2016, 09:03 PM
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QUOTE (spartacus @ Sep 30 2016, 09:08 PM) It's lazy English and it's ignorant though. This is a newspaper not just someone's blog. Yeah, "leave it, it's just part of language evolving naturally" is one way of responding, but there are enough examples of people thinking it's correct to type 'would of done' or 'could of done' and before you know it that will be accepted and in a newpaper article... That is true but I find myself wondering does it matter?
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Sep 30 2016, 09:05 PM
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QUOTE (Simon Kirby @ Sep 30 2016, 09:37 PM) Newbury firefighters had to bale out a flooded building the other day. Their there....👍
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