Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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It has happened on the first weekend in Feb for the last 19 years. Of course if they still had a Dover office (within sight of the Town Hall) they would have seen the posters outside and the barrels being delivered.
In previous years I have informed both papers but they don't always turn up. Or they turn up late on Saturday when the beer has nearly run out.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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If only there was a free-sheet or similar. Somewhere with a firm focus on all things Dover and where the Dover take on all things local, national and international could be expressed and discussed?
It's a wonder in this day and age, what with the inter-web etc., that some enterprising yet locally focused soul has not met the challenge with...a forum even.
The circle could be squared if the DE contact e-mail address was more generic, with a Dover tag. So that all the journalists could access it for a heads-up on the many things going on in the town. Nobody should be left with the easy way out of retorting that they were not informed though, so there is still a bit of onus upon the organisers, but over and above all of that why is there no calendar at the paper to point-up the recurring events?
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 659- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Phil has taken pictures at the festival so we were there, I'm just saying if people would like things in the paper where is the harm in letting us know by phone or email?
There is a generic email
newsdesk.doverexpress@KRNmedia.co.ukIt appears they have been doing so, Kathy, from what is being said. But in principle of course you are right. In principle so is Peter.
Jan Higgins
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Howard #59, for a long time the paper have relied too much on people telling them what is happening. They seem to have lost the ability to find anything out for themselves, possibly too much effort and intelligence required.
Surely the worst thing that can happen to any local paper is to loose the office for people to pop into or post a message through the letter box if shut.
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Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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Hear, hear, Jan !!
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Praise where praise is due they did me proud back in the school closure fights so i will say so and Tom post 58 umm one word is needed LOST
Excellent. I am glad they have done some good. You will have noticed that I acknowledged that potential in my post. No-one is saying that they have no purpose - just that those glimmers of good practice could do with expanding.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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You know what they say Mel...you're never lost once tied to a brush.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 735- Registered: 19 Dec 2011
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I like the Dubris column personally, I have been known to chuckle at the content.
I read every week and read something that catches my eye, like most people I guess.
Touching on Tom's point, I too find it frustrating when a story is printed so long after the event took place. Just makes it irrelevant, sometimes that is not the reporters fault I know.
Simple thing to consider here is... you just can't please everyone!
Well said Kyle , some people are just divas with big skeletons in their closets i think ...
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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I like having a chuckle at the Dubris column too, it adds another dimension to the paper without taking up too much room and if you don't like that sort of thing you don't have to read it.
Reading the other Kath's excellent excerpts from Dover Expresses of many years ago reminds us that it's a historical record of what is happening at any point in time in the town, and the country as a whole. So yes Kath, more court reporting please so our ancestors can see what we were fining and locking people up for!
Valuing privacy and truth is not being a diva.
Guest 650- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Ah, if it comes to that, then indeed, the DE has been a superb historical record for what we do, and there are some things we simply wouldn't have known had it not been for the reporting.
So in my ideal world, I'd have a return to the detailed reporting of decades ago, along with all the obituaries, which have been invaluable, and announcements. The detailed reporting isn't just useful, but quite an insight into then prevailing morality ... and rather fun too - one can just hear the world-weary sighs in some of the verbatim reports.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#75, how about valuing ones own privacy and ones own version of the truth above those of other people?
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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you're being very philosophical lately peter what with the karl marx bit yesterday.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I think everyone values their own version of the truth Peter and perhaps saddened that there is more than the one version. Sometimes though, facts are facts whoever tells them.
Roger.
#77 - Peter, don't be so cryptic. To what do you refer?
