Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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I've been published in the Dover Mercury, this week's edition, on page 10, with a column on Western Heights and Farthignloe.
A number of other interesting statements have also been published there, on the same page, and it's well worth a read.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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You want a medal or something ?
Been nice knowing you :)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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yet another literary giant in the forum, i understand posh barry will be publishing his memoirs in time for the christmas market.
SWWood- Location: Dover
- Registered: 30 May 2012
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It's a little strange to read these letters from locals desperate to protect the ancient scheduled monument on WH. Where have they been for the past 20 years or so? It seems like only the threat of a housing development can stir them from their slumber.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Well Alexander would rather it to to rack and ruin so probably spent the last 20 years up there planting buddeia !!
Been nice knowing you :)
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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SWWood how very true, seems they want to protect the area but appear to do nothing to help WHPS who do their very best to do just that.
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Have you actually read the Dover Mercury this week?
How can you make judgments without knowing what has been written?
Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,707
Why not post it here so those who do not have access to the Mercury can read it for themselves
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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That's not possible, Ross, for reasons of copywrite.
The current Dover Mercury edition is still on sale, so people will have to buy the paper to find out what has been written. It's worth a read, you'll be astounded!
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Been nice knowing you :)
Ross Miller- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
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well I might be, I might not be - or not in the way you expect - I will try to get hold of it and have a
read with an open mind.
Well having read the above I am underwhelmed and far from astounded or amazed, it frankly is the same opinion piece you have been posting in a number of threads here in various guises for some time.
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
It looks like a letter that the paper has published , rather than a column that has been commisioned by the paper . In the spirit of the Western Heights threads . I am looking forward to seeing it ,misquoted , misinterpreted and painfully misunderstood .
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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Revamped web site
http://www.kentminersfestival.org.uk/ with Western Heights advert.
"My New Year's Resolution, is to try and emulate Marek's level of chilled out, thoughtfulness and humour towards other forumites and not lose my decorum"
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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wish i could get a letter published in the local press, i keep getting mine back with "not known at this address" signed by kathy baile.
Guest 659- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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very funny howard, i look forward to getting your missive
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Sarah, it is a column in the newspaper, but Paul has cut it in two and made it look like half a column and an added piece
The original column in the paper is half mine and half of another writer, who also gave very good facts of the Western Heights - Farthingloe saga.
Hence my original wording: a column, which it is in the paper.
Ross Miller- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
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Alexander - yes technically it is a column - but factually it was a letter from you and a letter from another correspondent. So therefore there was no issue of copyright.
This really is another example of you being economical with the facts and blowing your own trumpet
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
good grief what ever next,a letter regarding folkestone road.or the in's and out's of a flushing toilet.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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I used to buy both local papers but since the Mercury raised its price I have only been buying the Express.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Been nice knowing you :)
