A new weekly supplement and companion website dedicated to a seaside town has been launched by a regional daily.
The Grimsby Telegraph has launched Cleethorpes People and Cleethorpespeople.co.uk to provide news devoted to the resort and surrounding area.
The eight-page publication will appear in the Telegraph every Wednesday.
Readers are being encouraged to post their own news, pictures and views to the new website.
Telegraph editor Michelle Lalor said: “A town that is as vibrant and large as Cleethorpes should have its own dedicated website – and that is abundantly clear from the sheer amount of content we were able to populate the site with for launch day.
“Scores of picture galleries, separate channels for every school, letters, features on clubs and schools and a focus on local business and sport – it goes on.
“It is a site and a publication in the paper that is for the town, its local area and its people – that is the emphasis and no story they have to tell is too small.
“In the coming weeks our dedicated team are out and about in the resort talking to people and getting their stories, while encouraging them to post directly to the site.”
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Sounds like Cleethorpes has come on leaps and bounds since I went there as a child at the end of a ‘magical mystery’ bus tour. It was shut…and the police had to locate my brother who got lost trying to find something interesting to do.
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Grammar tip to editor Michelle. It is “our dedicated team IS” not “our dedicated team ARE”.
Don’t worry, a lot of hacks make same mistake including BBC.
It would only be ARE if you said : ” Members of our dedicated team ARE”
If I had a quid for every time the BBC said the Government ARE” I would have a lot more beer money.
Actually it should not be either. It should be WILL BE, as you are using future tense.
And don’t get me started on Fewer and Less. Fewer mistakes and less crap sums it up. You can’t say fewer crap, can you? Here endeth lesson and back to filling shapes!
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Good luck – I’m sure I’d love to post my own content on someone else’s site for no fee.
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If you are working for the BBC and reporting on something north of the border it seems you have to say Sco-land never Scotland. Reporters, producers, weather guys and gals, do it all the time.
They are like a lot of sheep…that’s my “take” on it, anyway.
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Wow, Pedant. Someone else cares about these abominations as well as me. Yippee. All is not lost. We must never let the awful BBC win.
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Ohhh dear….
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Strictly speaking, agree with pedant post – but accept that decline of style guides means different papers have almost sleepwalked into conflicting and lazy grammar.
If the use is consistent rather than variable (perhaps Britain”s last surviving regional proof reader, if he or she exists, could clarify?) then maybe we just have to harrumph and move on to collating a dozen tweets and a grainy pic of.a one-eared social media moggy into a page lead.
There are bigger battles to fight.
Rumors on the grapevine suggest some grammar radicals favour abolition of the apostrophe because its (no pos needed ) correct placement confuses syntax-challenged younger readers who have never been taughtt that it’s (pos needed) an essential part of the English language.
Sadly, its (definitely no pos)) misuse in remotely-subbed papers and great chunks of the internet suggest the apostrophe is no longer a valued part of the English lexicon.
Winston Churchill would have fought tooth and claw to prevent its (no pos, of course) demise.
Have 21st century custodians of our language lost the will to defend it in an era when acronyms rule the dumbed down world of social media?
which may conflict council(s) are, is, will be while councillors and reporters are often strangers to each other.
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I’m just looking forward to this pullout… Sounds fun
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Galley proof. Yes, that is two people in the industry who care about good English. The standard across radio, TV, and newspapers is generally abysmal and on some local papers it is shameful. I cringe and yearn for good sub editors (there were plenty of bad ones too!)
Once upon a time all BBC reporters spoke excellent English. Now they gabble so fast their grammar crumbles. And some of these have English degrees!!
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Muker, it’s not about changing trends. It’s about right and wrong. They will have the apostrophe if we let them. It’s the lethargy that has allowed the PC zealots to move in. Now we have a country with councils controlled by chairs, which last time I looked were simple pieces of household furniture.
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