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George Dearsley's Blog: Hyper Local...in 1986
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Wednesday, 10 February 2010. Hyper Local.in 1986. I have had an epiphany. I've finally grasped how to make money from the internet as a journalist. And do you know what? It was a business model I tried.in 1986. It seems to be working. And good luck to local newspaper editor David Jackman who started hyper-local site Everything Epping Forest. After being made redundant. He has now launched a second in neighbouring Harlow - called Everything Harlow. The initial 12 page A-5 issue, on high quality, glossy pa...
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George Dearsley's Blog: December 2010
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Tuesday, 14 December 2010. Alan Sugar must be the celebrity version of Marmite. You either love him or hate him. Yes, he’s opinionated and yes, if you were his PR man you would probably be constantly walking on eggshells. TV persona there seems to lurk a decent family man with values that, if everyone followed suit, would improve our society. Good Cockney commonsense. Sugar himself says his parents broke most of the Jewish dietary rules. Like a lot of rich men Sugar (and he insists this is true) was neve...
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George Dearsley's Blog: Doing it in Styal
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Thursday, 28 February 2013. Doing it in Styal. A few months ago I joined a walking group called the Wednesday Wanderers. It's Last of the Summer Wine Meets the Krypton Factor. May I share with you some of our adventures? Our loins suitably girded, we set off from the Ship Inn at Styal near Manchester Airport, at 9.34am, walking away from the pub and turning left towards Norcliffe Chapel. Despite his welcome beneficence, the tightwad was too mean to put in any heating. Built the Chapel for the Baptists, a...
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George Dearsley's Blog: March 2013
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Friday, 15 March 2013. And so to Taddington, a Derbyshire village tucked away 1,100 feet above sea level, that could look charming if it made the effort. It grew around farming and quarrying for limestone and lead. From 1863 to 1967 the village was served by Millers Dale railway station, some two miles away, which was on the Midland Railway's extension of the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midlands Junction Railway. I think the members of the Tidy Village committee should have a word. This brought us to...
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George Dearsley's Blog: May 2009
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Thursday, 28 May 2009. You are given some odd tasks as a journalist. One day the telephone rang and a contact asked me to find him a dwarf (sorry, a person of restricted growth) for the UK’s first ever dwarf-throwing contest. I’ll tell you about that another time. There was just one drawback. While she could passably sing like Madonna she looked more like Maradona. At the time the necessary cosmetic surgery cost around £16,000 and she could only afford half. I duly contacted a friend who was deputy edito...
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George Dearsley's Blog: Every Bosley Cloud has a Silver Lining
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Thursday, 7 March 2013. Every Bosley Cloud has a Silver Lining. Rambling in North Staffordshire. No, it's not another NHS scandal. The first snowdrops of the year to be seen by the Wednesday Wanderers were recorded on this enjoyable walk. From snow to snowdrops in just four weeks. We came out of the car park behind the Knot Inn at Rushton Spencer and walked past a building carrying a plaque which said “Ruston Station 1844”. Corbelled kneelers and the circular and diamond shafted corniced stone stacks.
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George Dearsley's Blog: February 2013
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Thursday, 28 February 2013. Doing it in Styal. A few months ago I joined a walking group called the Wednesday Wanderers. It's Last of the Summer Wine Meets the Krypton Factor. May I share with you some of our adventures? Our loins suitably girded, we set off from the Ship Inn at Styal near Manchester Airport, at 9.34am, walking away from the pub and turning left towards Norcliffe Chapel. Despite his welcome beneficence, the tightwad was too mean to put in any heating. Built the Chapel for the Baptists, a...
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George Dearsley's Blog: January 2010
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Friday, 22 January 2010. Would you ask someone to build you a house who had never laid a brick? Yet in 1995 a company entered the financial services market for the first time with a personal equity plan and took £75m worth of investments from customers, the largest share in the industry. That company was Virgin and people trusted Richard Branson with their money because they believed he was a winner, despite no financial track record. Cost Gerald Ratner £500m. They wince as Jeremy Paxman puts ye...The te...
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George Dearsley's Blog: February 2010
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Thursday, 25 February 2010. Come to my room. In the days when newspapers actually put on circulation one often effective way of increasing readership was to launch a competition. Derek Jameson’s introduction of bingo in the early 1980s saw. The Daily Star’s sale increase from around 1.2m to almost 1.8m. Like the trouper she is Joan struck a series of cumly poses which duly graced the pages of Victor Matthews’ brainchild tabloid. The political correspondent sent to interview Mrs Thatcher was not...I have ...
