Nottingham Evening (sic) Post RIP


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Walked along Gregory Boulevard virtually every day of my young life, Trogg. Before I could walk, I was pushed along it in my pram or pushchair.   I think back to when I couldn't keep up with

Here is a link to the paper Nottingham live on Gregory Boulevard over the years with several photos , I thought it easier to put the link rather than individual photos as the written info is important

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 ther

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

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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. 

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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.

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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.  

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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