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November 21, 2006
No more own goals!
I am helping out on finishing off this week's Gazette sports pages as our sports editor Scott is taking a well deserved holiday - at least that's what he tells me!.
However, I am not too sure that Scott is totally relaxed about me touching his precious pages. Last time he went on holiday and I took control of the sports desk I dropped a bit of a clanger by getting the date of an important football match wrong!
As the Editor the buck stops with me - so I could only tell myself off for the error. I blamed pressure of work on the day but the truth is there was no defence for the mistake - I should have checked like we tell our reporters to do time and time again.
Hopefully all will go smoothly this week and when Scott returns in two weeks time I will avoid being in his bad books again!.
The rest of the paper is shaping up nicely and as I said yesterday we have some cracking front pages for the four editions. The splash we have for the Uxbridge edition is one of the most dramatic stories we have reported on all year.You will not want to miss reading it I can promise.
As I write this Alan Hayes - another early bird like me - the main sub for the Gazette pages is beavering away on the final news pages and eagerly awaiting subbing reinforcements to arrive. A cup of strong black coffee will keep him going for what promises to be a frantic morning at Gazette House.
Anyway back to the sports pages and no more own goals this week ......
Posted by aseal at November 21, 2006 7:52 AM