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March 18, 2008
Dark day at Gazette House
I was going to post this blog earlier but the way things have been going over the last few days I thought better of it for the safety of this week's Gazette.
It all kicked off last week with two false fire alarms at Gazette House which meant some considerable time spent standing about in the High Street waiting for the all clear. We all knew there wasn't really a fire but had no option but to evacuate the office.
However, yesterday became the day from hell as first a power cut plunged Gazette House into darkness and no sooner had we recovered from that and yes, you've guessed it we had another fire alarm.
So in total we spent the best part of two hours either sitting in darkness looking at blank screens or standing in the freezing cold outside.
All in all it was time we could ill afford to lose and put the Gazette's production schedule behind.
However, thanks to as lot of hard work we have managed to pull it back and this week's edition has hit deadline and on its way to the printers.
Thankfully there have been no more dramas today and we can certainly do without them for the rest if the week in what is one of the busiest times of the year for us.
In many ways Easter is worse than Christmas for local newspapers and it causes havoc with our deadlines.
We are already starting work on next week's Gazette which will have to be virtually finished before close of play on Thursday - so it's very much a case of all systems go over the next few days with hopefully no more alarms along the way.
Posted by aseal at March 18, 2008 3:32 PM