Now, for a quick bonus. While collecting up my various newspapers for Phase 2, the Moorlands Advertiser made its way in (we usually get the Moorlands Trader too, but not this week it seems, I may look at it some other time). It's not really what I'd consider to be a 'proper' newspaper, but since I'm behind now, I figured an extra article would be a good way to make up for the delay.
The main headline on the frontpage is the same that dominated the Leek papers earlier this week, "Protest at council pay rises", with the same coverage of the protests I've seen before. News that gas pipe replacements have been put off until 2010 to avoid impacting on Christmas shopping is news to me though.
Inside, the Advertiser feels like a very condensed version of a standard newspaper. There's news that the closed-down Woolworths should re-open soon as a branch of the Yorkshire Trading Company and debates over where to place a telecommunications mast in Cheadle. A science section that I didn't expect to see talks of riding gravitational corridors to make future space travel easier, the discoverer of DNA calling for innocent people to be removed from the government's DNA database, and a hypothesis that early life existed in the oceans for hundreds of millions of years while the Earth's atmosphere was still toxic to all life.
The Advertiser also has other requisite stuff like a jobs sections, classifieds, dating, a car review, horoscopes, and some suggestions about what to watch on TV in the coming week.
The Moorlands Advertiser consists of 32 pages and is published every Friday. It costs 20p where sold, but is delivered to many households (like ours) for free.
So, a thin review for a thin paper. Not a whole lot to it, and I wouldn't pay 20p for it, but who can argue with free? It does a decent job of informing about the local essentials, and that's about all it needs to do.
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