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January 22, 2007
There is no crime this week!
There will be no reports of crime related incidents in this week's Gazette - and probably next week's also.
And, it's not because the borough has become a crime free zone or we don't have the room to include them - spare the thought!
The reason is that Hillingdon police's press liaison officer (press officer in my book) has gone on holiday for two weeks and there is no one else seemingly available or capable of providing us with the information.
Quite frankly I think this is a shocking state of affairs and I can only apologise in advance for the lack of crime reports in the Gazette over the next two weeks.
I think it is vitally important that a local newspaper keeps it readers up to date with what crimes are occuring in the area - and although they may not always make pleasant reading they are after all a vital part of the coverage we provide.
Hopefully when the press liaison officer returns from holiday we will have column after column of crime nibs - the only trouble is they will all be out of date by then!
On a more positive note all the pictures from last Thursday's Local Heroes Awards night have now been posted on the website:Go to http://www.uxbridgegazette.co.uk/localheroes to see them along with a full report of the evening.
Posted by aseal at January 22, 2007 3:13 PM
Comments...
That's ridiculous! We were told a few weeks ago that 'nothing of any interest' had happened in the whole of Surrey over the weekend. We put in a Freedom of Information request and it turned out there had been 326 incidents, including two suspicous deaths.
Comment posted by: Ian at January 22, 2007 4:39 PM
Your right it's ridiculous. We were told to contact West Division for details of crime. They then told us that they don't provide crime 'nibs' to the press!
Comment posted by: Adrian Seal at January 23, 2007 7:56 AM