Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,820
Dover Express proudly states on the front page "Local news all day every day",but i,ve been noticing that it hasnt been all that local for quite some time and it seems to me to be getting less local, week after week.In this weeks for example,news of drink drivers arrested in Ashford,The story of a councillor from Romney marsh,A pub struggling to survive in Shepway,A burglary at a Hythe cafe,A hotel in breach of planning in Folkestone,A thug convicted of robbing a post office in St Marys bay,etc etc etc.Seems to be a few more snipets of Shepway news creeping in each week.Is there so little to report that we have to read news that should be for the Folkestone herald?Has anyone else noticed this?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Local news always suffers over the festive period with nothing much to report so stories are shared over the East Kent papers.
Where I moved from had a population of 300, 000 and one local paper. Dover has around a tenth of that amount with two local papers, frankly amazes me how they keep going.
Guest 878- Registered: 8 Feb 2013
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Hi Andy. Every year we have three editions over Christmas where we have to share more pages with other papers - basically so the sub editors and ad sales guys have time to see their families. Normal service is resumed on Thursday. Best
jamierose
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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There is still a lot could be done to bring it back to what it was years ago a real Dover paper,first thing is to reopen a office in the town even if it was only for 3 days a week so local folk could walk in.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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It is a pity that neither have an office in Dover, we used to see journos such as Graham Tutthill and others around the town during the day and if anyone had anything interesting they would alert the scribe to the story.
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,560
Although not normally a Dover Express-knocker, it has been noticeable in the last few weeks that the Dover Express has a lot more Folkestone and Deal content.
The Dover Express website is now
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Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,259
Have noticed it too for a while now, and the level of literacy is getting even lower. Today's front page"Police lay siege to armed officers" does anybody now how to read at the paper?
Arte et Marte
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I saw that headline and done a double take, their proof reader must be on holiday. The Dover Express website seems to cover all of Kent now.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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No Dubris Column now no reporters going out to find news just sit at a laptop waiting to see what comes up ,the paper is rubbish now and with no local office to walk into .They do not turnout anymore to p/council meetings. and you pay 90p a week for it.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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The national press is hardly any better, the Daily Mail publishes stuff from local newspapers that the group own and then supplement it with stuff on social media.
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
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The Folkestone fc forum has similar complaints about the Herald.
http://fifc.proboards.com/thread/4016/folkestone-heraldGuest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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They will soon see their advertising go down and that is what pays for the paper ,The Editorial need to have a sort out .
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I do not buy the dailys anymore and been that way for some years.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I just read them for free online, the best one in my view is the Independent who have now stopped doing a printed copy. That is the future and advertising will pay for it.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,163
Phil Hayes (who was mostly responsible for Dubris) has left the Express stable.
I wonder who he will be working for now? (I promised not to say so I'll leave it for someone else to surprise you all!)
Meanwhile the office of the EKM on Queen Street Deal has been renamed Malory Towers (see photograph below of staff training day, Dover Castle in background)
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Dubris is as old as the paper its self over 100years old I was first in it in the middle 1950s and last in it in 2015
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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howard mcsweeney1 wrote:I saw that headline and done a double take, their proof reader must be on holiday. The Dover Express website seems to cover all of Kent now.
Going by their awful use of the English language I do not think they have had a proof reader for a very long time, it is a case of bang it out and stick it on the internet.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I don't have a problem with their Internet stuff as it just designed to get hits which please the advertisers but the newspaper should be more professional.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Still no excuse for bad English and bad spelling.
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Andy B- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,820
Just had a look on the Dover express website thats now calling itself Kentlive.Very little Dover news,mentions of Canterbury,Thanet and even Tunbridge Wells,hope the paper isnt as bad.
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"