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December 12, 2006
One of Santa's helpers
Well we got there in the end and the final pages are now safely with our pre-press department.
Unlike previous weeks we have not had any late breaking stories but staff shortages have slowed us down today and the subs have been chasing the newsdesk for pages - it's always fun listening to these conversations and the various excuses.
We finally splashed on the story about the council tax bill reduction for many pensioners in the borough although judging by some of the reaction we have got it seems that there is a fairly lukewarm response to the news. I think we will get plenty of comments on this story in the coming days.
Everyone can now take a well earned breather before we start work on next week's edition.
On the subject of staff shortages we were missing our chief reporter Chris Longhurst this week who is on holiday.
However, it appears he might be doing a bit of 'moonlighting'. He was spotted out in Eastcote last night by our office manager Lynne, who reported seeing Father Christmas and his helpers, one of whom was Chris, preparing for Christmas.
Now I don't think she had been on the sherry so I can only presume that has taken on a bit of part-time work over the festive season - although I am sure it's all for a good cause.
Posted by aseal at December 12, 2006 2:09 PM