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March 29, 2007
Easter headache
While most people will be looking forward to the Easter break it can pose something of a headache for us at Gazette House.
A large part of my meeting yesterday with content editor David Tilley and news editor Chene Koscienly was spent planning ahead for the next week and the impending Easter holiday.
We have to get next's week Gazette finished as usual by Tuesday lunchtime and then need to have almost completed the following week's paper two days later on Thursday.
Unlike Christmas when again you have several tight deadlines but small papers the paginations for the Easter editions are pretty much as normal so it will be a tough week ahead for the newsdesk and subs.
To compound matters David is on holiday next week as he heads for Spain and some tapas and Rioja so I am sure that Chene is really looking forward to the task ahead.
I have just received an interesting email from Rachel, a pupil at Swakeleys School, telling me that she has started a petition along with fellow pupils to try and save the outdoor centre used by school across the borough in Cwen Pennant from closure.
We have received a tremendous response since we first broke this story several weeks ago and rest assured Rachel we will certainly be covering your campaign to try and save the centre in next week's Gazette.
PS: If any of our eagle-eyed readers of the Harefield edition are wondering we have not taken a step back in time at the Gazette. The dateline on the front page should have read 2007 and not 2006 as printed. Heads will roll!
Posted by aseal at March 29, 2007 8:00 AM
Comments...
Regarding Cwm pennant Harrow Council had a similar venue at Nant Y Moch a few miles South In Poys / Ceredigion.
there is also training rooms /museum available in machynlleth roughly halfway between the two.
Could some form of EU ? Welsh Assembly bid be craeated such that the centres come under one hill walking trust.
In Northern Snowdonia there is already the elite Plas Y Brenin / UK / English and Welsh Mountain training centre.
Could a training centre focused more on Schoolkids and teenagers provision and available as part of the Welsh National curriculum to local schools as well be a way of increasing demand and funding base, thus securing the centres ethos and staff for the future.
Comment posted by: James at March 30, 2007 11:45 AM