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Adam Parsons »
Cheetah's passing nothing to sneeze at
Posted on 11:48am Friday 6th January 2012
I HAVE a couple of old friends – both of them former reporters on this very newspaper – who have a liking for monkeys that borders on obsession.
Oliver Phillips »
I was guilty of accidental phone hacking courtesy of a crossed line
Posted on 1:30pm Thursday 29th December 2011
I MUST confess to phone-hacking, accidentally. I picked up the phone one morning back in 1965 and dialled 21759 which was the number of Watford FC. The phone clicked and I heard the familiar tones of someone speaking. I was just about to reply when I began to suspect I had a crossed line. Then I realised it was the club chairman Jim Bonser and he was talking to manager Ken Furphy.
Oliver Phillips »
Sometimes the headlines are what they wished the a\ttached article really said
Posted on 1:30pm Thursday 22nd December 2011
IT IS said that it is not just the reporters, but the sub-editors who are to blame for some of the excesses in national newspapers. They are the individuals who receive the reports and whose job on some newspapers is to try and come up with a corny pun, playing on words, rather than giving you the facts in a headline.
Catherine Cain »
The cheesy sound of Christmas past
Posted on 11:37am Monday 19th December 2011
I’m proud to admit that the soundtrack that accompanies my annual bout of tinsellitis is more cheesy than the deli counter at Waitrose. And what’s more it’s nostalgic, too… not always in a good way.
Oliver Phillips »
Are we that obsessed with people who are in reality minor achievers?
Posted on 6:51am Thursday 15th December 2011
THE revelations that Charlotte Church was asked to sing at a Maxwell wedding and was offered either £100,000, or a newspaper commitment towards positive publicity, caused me to wonder how far journalism has sunk.
Adam Parsons »
Shining example of Christmas spirit
Posted on 11:43am Friday 6th January 2012
Driving back from Vicarage Road on Saturday, and spirits were a little low.
Ann Janes »
HELP YOUR HOUSEPLANTS THROUGH THE WINTER
Posted on 6:38pm Sunday 11th December 2011
The winter can be a tough time for indoor plants as well as those living outside.
Oliver Phillips »
Phone hacking: what a cosetted time I spent in journalism
Posted on 3:40pm Thursday 8th December 2011
AS A JOURNALIST, I suspect I must have lived a very charmed life in the backwater that is Watford and The Watford Observer. I base this suspicion on the way in which journalists are depicted in various television dramas and I was reminded of this recently when catching up with missed episodes of Wire in the Blood, Frost, Waking the Dead and their successors.
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