sadoldgit

Apparently he went to speak to the police a few years ago and asked if they wanted to talk to him about it. They said no. She was 13 when they met and has said 14 when they started having sex. They married when she was 18 but parted soon after. As a side note his son went off with her mother! She looked much older than 13/14 but he knew how old she was. She still looks pretty fit now but has had a tough time and it sounds like it affected her quite badly as she grew up. Surprising that the police aren't interested after the number of collars that have been felt over kiddy fiddling. I suppose the fact that they got married might have helped him.

Readership/hits of online newspapers seem to be falling year on year. I left newspapers in 2004 and at the time they were starting to get excited by online possibilities but we (the old school print side of the business) couldn't work out how that would make money. I still cant get my head around it. When I was at The Guardian the split was about 50/50 between the revenue from sales and the ad sales revenue. I get that the overheads are reduced but so is the income now from what I can gather.

Absolutely!

coke

I went to a few of the locals national conferences in the 90s tasked with nicking ideas from you guys. I presented a paper on subscriptions to the Board but they weren't interested in those days. Did you used to go to the ACE Christmas lunches? Many a liver will never recover from those!

Dennis

I can probably say this now but back in the 70s I used to put the figures together for The Times for ABC. We used to keep the returns notes in my draw and the Circulation Manager would tell me how many credit notes to put through each month depending on what sales figure he wanted.

Were you there when "bulk sales" started off?

Wasn't there a time when virtually all of the titles carried the Newspaper of the Year on their mastheads?

You will know more about selling advertising space that I do Jackanory, but I would imagine a full colour page ad in the Sunday Times would be a lot more appealing than an ad online to both advertisers and consumers? How do newspapers make money online?

jet

Yes you have said this before but it seems odd given that they are saying that it is about working too many hours as it is? If that is the case why isn't Hunt making more of it in support of his plans?

Exactly. I expect that there are 3rd world countries who have better coverage than we do.

I think it depends on what changes are proposed. If the people who work in the NHS think they wont work why not criticise the proposals?

The last house in rented just outside Maidstone didn't have a strong enough signal to get online regularly. There are plenty of people who live around the village I live in currently who cant get a decent connection. There have been plenty of reports about how poor rural internet connections are. Go check it out if you don't believe me.

Having worked in newspaper circulation for 30 years ( until 2000) I find this very sad news. It sounds like the beginning of the end for printed newspapers. Not everyone can get access to the internet or wants their newspaper online. Sales seem to have dropped away drastically though and I guess it makes sense financially. When I use the train I still see more people reading newspapers or magazines than I do looking at laptops or tablets.

Wrong.

The Tories are doing their best to do away with the sparsely populated bit by building more and more houses on arable land.

Give it another couple of years and people will be flocking here for their holidays. The trouble is that the coastline will be several miles inland.

What do you think guys? Should we throw him to the junior doctors?

ass

But there is a big difference to playing to Premiership standard and giving away several poor goals. We pay these guys a lot of money to be able to come on and do a job. If they cant we need to find those who can. If you aim to be competitive there is no point in having a quality first team if the back up players aren't up to it.

Is it his fault he earned a ton of money? Perhaps the person who signed him and offered him the contract in the first place should take the blame?

So we are happy with a white collar strike but not with the blue collar strikes? I think any union that calls a strike will think it justified even if some of us don't.

I seem to remember they fell out after a game we lost in which Big Mac said to KK that he had "cheated out there today." We went on to finish runners up after KK left so we didn't do too badly. I also remember KK saying he left so that Big Mac could afford to buy Shilton?