Jill Sparrow 10,305 Posted June 10, 2018 Report Share Posted June 10, 2018 Yes, Catfan. I think you're right. Often went that way, so it would fit. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nonnaB 4,895 Posted June 10, 2018 Report Share Posted June 10, 2018 Thank goodness my dentist is my BIL. hes the only dentist that I frequented that can fill and drill a tooth without an anasthetic ( spelling) Hes so good , goes for refresher and updates all the time. He also has the most uptodate equipment. He now specialises in cosmetic dentistry. A few years ago at a his wedding , a neice tripped on the long tablecloth at her table and smashed her two front teeth. He went to the rescue straightaway and by evening he had given her two front teeth crowns. Yes dentists are also very expensive here too but tell me what isnt. After various discussions the comment is... "Well We are in Italy" says it all 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mercurydancer 1,104 Posted June 10, 2018 Report Share Posted June 10, 2018 Catfan Russian driving is both spectacular and dangerous. I have seen nothing like it anywhere. In Moscow the traffic can grind to a standstill on some directions and the drivers just drive on the road into oncoming traffic on the opposite lane. Traffic lights are a suggestion to most Russian drivers. I can recall driving in southern Russia in a blizzard. I could not see more than about 10 meters. Overtaking me was a saloon going about three times the speed I was driving at, with a bus full of kids behind, the bus driver honking the horn for the driver to pull over and let him past. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,599 Posted June 10, 2018 Report Share Posted June 10, 2018 MD. that sounds really scary! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bamber 128 Posted June 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2018 On 6/5/2018 at 2:20 PM, loppylugs said: It just reminded me. Johnny Preston had a jazz band. He called it Johnny Preston's Upper Set. . I don't know where they played but maybe some of you heard them. Johnny Preston ... a man with a very colourful lifestyle. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted June 10, 2018 Report Share Posted June 10, 2018 I didn't know that, Bamber. Tell us more. He's probably long gone now. I know he was a good few years older than me back in the sixties. He seemed like good dentist. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bamber 128 Posted June 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2018 Well let's say he was a bit of a swinger Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted June 11, 2018 Report Share Posted June 11, 2018 Bamber. I know there was some kind of ruckus. It even made it to the Evening Post back in the day. I lost track of him after that because I moved to the other side of town and then emigrated. So I don't know how it all worked out. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted August 20, 2020 Report Share Posted August 20, 2020 Just curious any know what the paper copy now costs? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,871 Posted August 20, 2020 Report Share Posted August 20, 2020 85p Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,115 Posted August 20, 2020 Report Share Posted August 20, 2020 That is a rip-off for such a pathetic news sheet. As a subscriber I get The Times for £1.20 a day which includes the online version. Online’s ok but I do like a proper newspaper on the breakfast table. After use we cut it into squares and string it for toilet paper. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,305 Posted August 20, 2020 Report Share Posted August 20, 2020 I'm pleased to learn you are recycling paper. With such a quality publication, I trust the print doesn't come off on your backside! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,115 Posted August 20, 2020 Report Share Posted August 20, 2020 Actually I do have a flexible inspection camera where I could, if so desired, look at my rear for traces of printing ink. It might be worth putting it to the test. I could always use a copy of ‘The Sun’. I’m told that it shines out of my backside. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bamber 128 Posted September 1, 2020 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2020 It is official, the Evening (sic) Post is dead. The owners, Reach PLC, have announced that the Post, the Derby Telegraph and the Lincolnshire Echo are to share an editor - Natalie Fahy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mary1947 2,079 Posted September 1, 2020 Report Share Posted September 1, 2020 The Evening Post belonged to us all, how many of you put birth, picture of your wedding or something in the rest in piece collom, and don't forget when you went looking for the job Tuesday night there was at lest 4 pages to gp though, Thursday's night was houses and Friday cars. RIP NOTTINGHAM EVENING POST sorry can't find a paper to put the obituary in. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bamber 128 Posted November 10, 2020 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2020 The Post hasn't been printed in Nottingham for donkey's. First it moved to Derby and nowadays they print overnight in Birmingham - yesterday's news tomorrow. Well, Reach (owners of the paper) have announced the closure of the Birmingham printworks and the Post will be coming from either Oldham, Middlesbrough or Watford - yesterday's news the day after tomorrow. With circulation now so low it cannot be too long before the Post goes weekly or vanishes altogether. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,464 Posted November 10, 2020 Report Share Posted November 10, 2020 It's surprising to discover that it still exists (at the moment) and that it still sells a few copies every day. I'd be interested to know who buys it now....I guess the average age of readers is somewhere in the 80s. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,115 Posted November 10, 2020 Report Share Posted November 10, 2020 Their online news synopsis is dreadful and never up to date. It has been a third rate newspaper appealing to the lowest common denominator for many years. Our local weekly newspaper, the Newark Advertiser, is now owned by a national group and has gone downhill regarding local news in a similar way. We still take it, hoping my name will appear, but I guess that will be in the obituaries! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted November 10, 2020 Report Share Posted November 10, 2020 I go on line to westbridgfordwire.com for Nottingham news. Much easier to navigate than the Post. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bamber 128 Posted November 10, 2020 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2020 From today's Bread and Lard Bugle West Bridgford Wire. West Bridgford drugs dealing and ASB – Operation Alaska nominals dealing drugs and committing ASB on West Bridgford Beats including Edwalton, Compton Acres and Trent Bridge – Owned by West Bridgford Neighbourhoods, Rushcliffe Reacher and Response teams. Obviously an extract from a Notts Police press release, but you would have thought that the force's press office would have taken the time to translate it out of police-jargon into something approaching standard English. 10-4. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bamber 128 Posted March 20, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2021 Reach plc (current owners of the NEP) has announced a further restructuring of their operations in the East Midlands. The Leicester Mercury and Derby Evening Telegraph offices in the respective cities are to close and everything will be concentrated in the Nottingham hub. I now give the NEP a year tops. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,464 Posted March 20, 2021 Report Share Posted March 20, 2021 I'm amazed they still exist. I've just looked at the figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulation; during the second half of last year the NEP averaged 8,434 copies per issue. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,115 Posted March 20, 2021 Report Share Posted March 20, 2021 We’ve taken the Newark Advertiser for years but they no longer print and publish locally. The local news is very thin on the ground. I can’t see it lasting much longer. We stopped taking the Post years ago and their website is dreadful. We do have the Times and Sunday Times. A newsagent from Lowdham drops the copies in a box in the centre of a few villages. My wife goes up to collect our copy as it’s a chance for her to have a gossip. I have the Times on line as well so I don’t think we’ll be having a hard copy fro much longer. There is just something special about a proper newspaper on the breakfast table though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAVIDW 1,683 Posted March 20, 2021 Report Share Posted March 20, 2021 4 hours ago, Cliff Ton said: I'm amazed they still exist. I've just looked at the figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulation; during the second half of last year the NEP averaged 8,434 copies per issue. Our 2 main local papers in West Cornwall are owned by Reach too , though we are lucky , as ours are only weekly newspapers . Circulation 11,000 for the two combined , haven't bought one for years as they've gone the same way as the Post . They have the same dreadful website that continually bombards you with pop-ups . Click on a headline story and you find it was from last year ! Having said that I do have a tentative link to a features reporter who has published a couple of my blog stories locally . He does look for a sensational headline though and also syndicates these stories . Some that he has "written" or covered have appeared in national papers such as the Daily Mail , Daily Mirror and The Metro . One story he did though , (not mine) featured our old house and was was complete and utter tosh . A far fetched story about a haunted house and a "hidden" safe door ! We bought the house in the early 1980s and had it converted back from offices (of a tin mining company) into domestic . The house/office didn't have a bathroom so we converted the walk-in safe to a downstairs bathroom . The safe door was too heavy too remove so the builders thought it best to brick it in and plaster over . Since we left that house in 1990 it had changed hands a few times and the current new owner asked on a local Facebook page , last year , about the history of the house . I replied and told him what I knew and mentioned the safe door being bricked in and its whereabouts . Next thing there's a story about the house being haunted and a ghost helping him find where the safe door was , along with other "happenings" . As I said all complete rubbish . Story as published in the D.Mail a few months ago . https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9187825/Coffee-bar-owner-says-ghosts-haunted-house-helped-secret-vault-door.html 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,278 Posted March 20, 2021 Report Share Posted March 20, 2021 Have never had a paper delivered in the 45 years we have been here in OZ. Years ago they used a machine to roll the paper so tight, put an elastic band on it and just threw it on your front garden. When it rained the first two pages were often sodden and in order to read it you had to unroll it and hold it flat or iron it to be able to read it. They then progressed to rolling it in Gladwrap which kept it dry but still left you with the problem of getting it flat. These days it is folded inside a sealed plastic bag, much more practical but still the problem of disposing of even more plastic. We only have one local daily paper and it can best be described as a comic it is owned by the Murdoch organisation so you can guess its leanings. I don't even bother looking at its website as most of it is behind a pay wall and i refuse to pay for rubbish. Correction....... I do occasionally buy the Saturday paper as it has a lot more pages but only when we are planning to have prawns so I can wrap the shells in it or use it for masking when painting. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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