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January 30, 2007
Tom's crosses the river
Today we say farewell to one of our Uxbridge reporter's Tom Parnell, who is moving across the river to one of our sister papers the South London Press.
Tom has worked his way up to become a senior reporter on the Gazette and has been an extremely valuable member of the team and we are all sorry to see him leave for pastures new.
By one abiding memory of Tom will be the day he left his coat and notebook, with most of his stories for that week's paper, at his parents during a weekend stay. I took a frantic call from Tom on a Sunday night as he explained his plight.
As luck would have it Tom's parents lived near to me in Surrey so, it was a frantic Sunday night dash for his poor mum to deliver the coat and more importantly the notebook to my house.
I was delighted that the notebook would be reunited with Tom ready for Monday morning and no stories would be missed out in the Gazette. However, I am not sure Tom's mum was quite so pleased about having to turn out on a wet and windy Sunday night - stupid boy I think was her reaction!
It's been a hetic few days and now I have finished my stint as sports editor for the week I can take some time to look over the main news pages for this week's paper before deadline.
This week's Gazette is a strong edition with a really good mix of hard news stories and features - I have to say it's the best paper we have put out so far this year.
Posted by aseal at January 30, 2007 12:12 PM
Comments...
We all live in hope. What happened to the MPs columns? I always looked forward to reading them as they told us what they were up to, but they've seemed to have disappeared in the last few months. Also, you never seem to ask for their comments in stories any more, which is disappointing given they represent everyone your paper sells to.
Comment posted by: Raj at January 30, 2007 2:06 PM
We will still be running the MPs columns - but on a less regular basis.We also invite comments from our three MPs who cover the borough when it's appropriate to a story.
Comment posted by: Adrian Seal at January 31, 2007 7:29 AM