Sad Sandra

Despite the usual mad rush for both the newsdesk and the subs after the Bank Holiday this week's Gazette is out on the streets.

It's always difficult when you lose a day out of an already busy schedule but we have still put together a strong paper with a good mix of stories.

This week's Uxbridge splash is a really emotive story and one that I am sure will touch the hearts of our readers.

Christine Laudham is a terminal cancer sufferer and caring colleagues at Wilkinson's in The Mall Pavilions shopping centre in Uxbridge are clubbing together to help give her the chance of a holiday of a lifetime.

We also have comprehensive coverage of all the GCSE success stories from around the borough and a special feature marking the 10th anniversary of the death of Diana,Princess of Wales.

There were several strong local angles to this story most notably that Diana's body's was flown back to RAF Northolt where more than 5,000 gathered to mourn the death of the Princess.

I must say that our community reporter Barbara Fisher's account of how she covered that day makes fascinating reading particularly her account of the horrendous hostility to the press and how they were blamed for the the Princess of Wales's death.

She also describes how our chief photographer Chris Berry was advised for his own safety to stay inside the gates of the airport - it's well worth reading.

I am always pleased to receive comments to my various blogs and was quite excited when I got in on Tuesday morning to see that I had received more than 50.

My joy was shortlived however, when I realised they were all from the same person and just a pile of junk which then took a considerable time to delete.

It seems that someone out there called Sandra had a particularly sad Bank Holiday weekend if the best she could do was fill my email with a load of rubbish comments to just about every blog I have written.