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As you know from my previous posts, I am always interested in local newspapers and the part they play in the community. I wrote on another thread a little while ago that I wondered what their future was in this digital age. So I was intrigued by some of the posts on this thread and particularly Andy Stevens' comments about the Dover Mercury being a slip/change page edition of the East Kent Mercury, which, of course, it is. But in this week's paper I noticed that there were some 15 news pages which seemed to be specifically devoted to Dover, and that there was some Dover news on 5 of the other pages which also contained Deal or Sandwich stories. So that didn't seem to be a bad Dover showing to me. I agree there were no Dover letters, but as was suggested previously, that's probably because no-one from Dover wrote in. I suspect they still write to the town's traditional paper, the Express - in the same way as they put their birth, marriage and death announcements in there rather than the Mercury. I also agree with Martin P that the Express has a different journalistic style which makes it interesting to compare the two sometimes. Sorry to see he (and others) don't seem to have read the Dover Mercury - always worth giving these things a try, I think, if only to make an informed judgment!