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November 30, 2007
Sparse newsroom
It's worringly quiet in the Gazette newsroom today - infact apart from content editor David Tilley there is not a member of staff to be seen.
I would like to report that they are all out chasing stories for next week's paper but a combination of illness and holidays has reduced to Gazette reporting team to just one today - and that reporter is currently out of the office in Ruislip.
Two work experience students have pitched up to help out but thankfully the subs' are not yet shouting at the newsdeak for more copy to fill the early news pages.
However, I am not too worried at this stage about next week's paper as the news list is looking quite healthy and we have several good stories already in the bag so to speak and by Monday we should almost be back to full strength reporting wise.
I have just looked at the weather forecast which is likely to dictate what I do over the weekend and when.
It's looking like a case of two extremes:
On the one hand I will be battling through crowds of Christmas shoppers in Kingston - although at least I know what to get people this year - and my other persuit will hopefully be walking through the Surrey countryside and admiring its beauty as winter starts to set in.
Judging by the weather forecast it looks like the Christmas shopping will be on Sunday when gale force winds and driving rain are predicted - happy days!
Posted by aseal at November 30, 2007 11:23 AM
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Welcome back!
Comment posted by: Ian at November 30, 2007 6:12 PM