It’s taken me so long to get round to setting my blog up that at the moment, all I have is the July 2005 edition of “The Carrier” (Est:1988), a “FREE community magazine” for the Romsey area. Such is the pace of life in the Romsey area that we’re barely into August and already it mostly feels like old news.
Local news archive
I’ve always been a lover of local news. While the national newspapers and the News at 9, or 10, or whenever that’s on these days, are covering crucial international events, and the news from region is covering those crucial international events from a more local perspective - any sporting victory is usually followed in the Meridian region by an account from a local person who coached / fathered / is / shared a room with the champion.
Strangely, though, while there always seems to be quite a lot happening in the world, all over the world, none of it seems to be happening locally. Anywhere. Not in the UK at least. You only have to get a freeview box and watch any of the local news feeds on BBC to illustrate that. Perhaps it’s because those local news updates just aren’t local enough. Or maybe it’s just that 2-3 minutes isn’t enough to capture the excitement of a day’s happenings in any given region.