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Suffolk murders coverage

Posted by Rob Irvine on December 13, 2006 10:32 AM | 

An early start today as I had to be at the BBC studios in Bangor for 6am to do the newspaper reviews on Good Morning Wales.
The tragic events from Suffolk dominated the London-based newspapers - and also made it on to the front of the Western Mail.
One of the presenters asked why we had not featured the discovery of two more bodies on the front of the Daily Post. My answer was that we are primarily a newspaper for North Wales, that this is what our readers expect and appreciate about our news coverage and also that they know we give prominent coverage on the major national and international issues of the day on our inside pages (as we did today with the story of the murders).
But if you think we should feature these sorts of stories on our front page I would be interested to hear your views.
One of the other stories that caught my eye was the reported bonuses at Goldman Sachs investment bank. The AVERAGE bonus for their thousands of staff is £330,000...the top bosses will get £50 MILLION apiece, and if they all clubbed their bonuses together they could afford to buy a Trident submarine.
I am sorry, but that just isn't right.

UPDATE at 2pm
The name of the Snowdonia summit cafe has been announced - Hafod Eryri. I simply cannot wait to hear how this is verbally butchered by tourists..."Ooh its lovely in Wales, there's Betsy co-head, gorgeous place, and Pooth-welly. And now we can go up the mountain to the Hayford Ayereereero...smashing"


 

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Hello, I'm Rob Irvine, editor of the best -selling newspaper in North Wales - the Daily Post. I reckon mine is one of the best jobs in newspapers - editing a paper with an incredible history, with fantastically loyal readers. And I get to live in one of the most beautiful places on earth with wife Julie and our dog Max. I'll tell you in this blog about life at the Daily Post office in Llandudno Junction together with some s

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