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January 9, 2007
Tesco story is a hit
It's much easier to see what readers are really interested online than in print.
While I am waiting for the last few news pages on this week's Gazette to be designed, subbed and checked I have been looking at the daily website figures I can now obtain.
And yesterday we had a large number of hits when we posted the breaking story that Tesco had withdrawn their application for a controversial superstore on the Master Brewer site at Hillingdon Circus.
Infact, it has proved to be one of the most popular stories we have put on the site in terms of hits - even more so than my daily blogs!
We will be covering the Tesco story in much greater depth in this week's Gazette and it will be our page five lead in what is turning out to be a strong news week with a good mix of stories.
One story we will be focusing on heavily is the council's decision to start charging traders across the borough to place boards advertising their businesses outside their stores. I have to say this seems to me just another way of swelling the council's coffers - but more on that later ...
Posted by aseal at January 9, 2007 10:13 AM
Comments...
Re. Tesco at the Master Brewer. Everyone seems to be hailing it as a victory for the "little people" (residents) but I have in on reasonably good authority that Tesco, having failed to get planning permission through the correct channels, now intend to leave the site to rot and become derelict. Their theory is that after a few years, everyone will be begging them to clear the site and build a superstore.
Comment posted by: Frank Long at January 19, 2007 1:12 PM