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December 4, 2006
Ho, ho, ho
Last week I half jokingly asked my production editor to count the number of pages he had seen with pictures of Father Christmas on - he politetly told me where to go.
Considering that apart from the Gazette more than 450 other pages are produced for various titles out of Gazette House it was not an unreasonable answer.
However, I have a feeling the Uxbridge newsdesk must have been listening in to the conversation and decided to get in the festive spirit. They have just informed me they are working on a story this week about a seven week old baby dressed up as Father Christmas - now it may be the 'silly season' but that sounds just ridiculous. I await further developments with interest and I hope they don't tell me the story is going to make a page lead.
I must admit I had a laugh to myself when I read my colleague Lindsay Coulson's Harrow Observer blog http://www.harrowobserver.co.uk and her tale of the picture of the black cat in last week's paper. The problem was that the picture was in black and white and the cat's owner had a black jumper on. I have sent her a note asking if she has launched a new 'spot the cat' competition in the Observer - I await her reply ...
Posted by aseal at December 4, 2006 1:26 PM