Guest 706- Registered: 25 Oct 2010
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18 November 2010
17:4180700This week with four pages of adverts for Tesco in Folkestone
And many,many pages of childrens' first day at school.
None of Whitfield Primary School but lots from Palmarsh,Dymchurch,Munedella,Harcourt and St Eanwythes. Where is that!
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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18 November 2010
17:5880701Just read the letters page in the 'Dover' Mercury. It's mostly from Deal.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Keith Sansum1
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18 November 2010
18:1180703Penny
like jenny morgan(indy cllr) and local shop owner
i stopped buyng the express many years ago
have in other threads hghlighted my reasons
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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18 November 2010
18:5080712Why bother to buy a local paper that no longer has a local office or really covers the area it serves plus it is full of adverts. I gave up a few years ago.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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18 November 2010
18:5280714penny
i believe that st eanswythe's is in folkestone.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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18 November 2010
20:0480731rhys from the express has given his reply to the original topic on the front page.
Guest 706- Registered: 25 Oct 2010
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18 November 2010
20:2680733Thank you Howard. I've replied.
Guest 705- Registered: 23 Sep 2010
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18 November 2010
21:3980737St Eanswythe's is definitely in Folkestone!
Never give up...
Guest 659- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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18 November 2010
21:5480739The reception pupils feature is something we do across the group. Because Dover Express is part of the Folkestone Herald series (they all go on the same press) we will have to share things like adverts and features like first class. This is why there are both Dover district and Folkestone schools in the Express (and why the Folkestone readers will have Dover schools in their paper)
Guest 659- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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18 November 2010
21:5880740I meant to say they all go on the same press run, plus hi to Penny, pop in and see me at the hotspot (again) some time
18 November 2010
22:1380741That doesn't make me feel any better about not having a dedicated Dover paper or office.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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18 November 2010
22:1780743times have changed bern, when i first moved here i was astounded that there were 2 local papers, nowadays the mercury focuses on deal and the express seems divided over us and folkestone.
Guest 659- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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18 November 2010
22:2080745Bern, I'd love to still be in the Dover office but the newspaper industry is as vulnerable to the economy as everyone else. Many businesses, including us, have had to make painful cuts.
On our side of things we have to work much harder to make sure we are still out and about in the district and know what's going on even though we are now in Folkestone. We have to accept cuts the same as so many other firms and employees and do our best whatever the circumstances
Guest 684- Registered: 26 Feb 2009
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19 November 2010
15:3080783Apparently the Dover Express said that DAFC are playing Aldershot in Round Two of the FA Cup on December 27 (!!!) instead of November 27.
Luckily there's the interweb, the blogosphere, Facebook, Twitter, citizen journalism and good old human interaction to still get things right!
Guest 684- Registered: 26 Feb 2009
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19 November 2010
15:3280784But no offence to the hard-working hacks who would love to work in less straitened circumstances.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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19 November 2010
15:3980786And thats the same express tha is critcal of others when then get things wrong.
still andy there you have it.
Those of us loyal fans know the correct date and dont rely on the paper
thankfully
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19 November 2010
21:3480826I have stopped buying either of the "local" papers - what a waste of money
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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19 November 2010
21:5980829Same here, the local gossips provide more news than the local papers.
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19 November 2010
22:0180830howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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19 November 2010
22:2480832maybe people forget the scoop on the inmates walking free from the detention centre, the expose on the chamber top chap and the peoples port launch that none of us would have known about.
i sometimes think that the "eggs press" gets a lot of unfair flak.
