No 'silly season'

August is often described as the 'silly season' in the newspaper industry.

However, it has been a particularly good news week and today's Gazette is one of the strongest editions we have had for a while.

It seemed everything happened last Friday with a lorry hitting a bus stop and over turning and then unexploded World War Two bombs being found near the site of Uxbridge Lido.

This is where the website really comes into its own as we were able to break the stories online pretty much as they happened.

And on Saturday part of the town centre in Uxbridge was closed off for a number of hours after a serious road traffic accident.

There are also a number of other strong issue stories in this week's paper and a round up off A-level success stories from across the borough.

With a lot of people appearing to be away on holiday this week I am not expecting it to be one of our strongest sales weeks but it's still rewarding for all the team when a really good newsy paper comes together.

Today's news meeting will see us gearing up for our coverage of the GCSE results which are out tomorrow and again we will be looking at all the opportunities both for the website and next week's paper.

And with the bank holiday weekend ahead our deadlines have all been advanced making it a tough few days as we crack on with next week's paper.