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Brunstrom, fiendish sudokus and hoodies aged four

Posted by Rob Irvine on September 6, 2007 9:21 PM | 

I know I shouldn't have but I couldn't be bothered sitting through the whole three minutes and fast-forwarded to the bit when the chief constable crumpled to the floor with a strangled cry of "bloody hell".
For someone who slags off the media relentlessly he is one serious media tart but the point was well made - there's nothing big or clever about being Tasered - and it took some guts to do it. We would have liked to have hosted the video on our shiny new website too but the police press office said no. I think they've fallen out with us because normally those guys just can't stop giving.
Well, despite a few technical hitches the relaunch of the website has gone pretty well. There has been a lot of work to do and much credit should go to our digital journalist Dan Owen.
We're also tweaking a couple of items in the paper. Hopefully you'll have seen the new nostalgia page in Thursday's edition which features articles about great games and toys of our childhoods plus images of adverts from Daily Posts of yesteryear. Some of them are just bizarre.
Fairly soon we will be improving the two page puzzle package in Thursday's paper which will include, in answer to high demand, a super-fiendish sudoku that took our best puzzle cracker Mark Williams more than an hour to complete. It's the enigma code of sudokus.
We're also busy recruiting staff for our websites and I'll soon be interviewing for a new news editor so that's filling the diary up along with a stack of meetings which all seem to be held in Liverpool. I'm doing that A55 run on auto-pilot these days and it's always great to be heading back (especially that moment when you drop down Rhuallt Hill and see the Clwydian range with Snowdonia in the background, fantastic).
Hope you enjoy tomorrow's edition - we have a great splash about a four-year-old girl who fell foul of a ban on hoodies (those pink cardies can look quite threatening).
And we have plenty of build-up to a bumper international sporting weekend. A double-victory wouldn't go amiss on the newspaper sales front!



 

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mali williams wrote...

i had a phone call.
market research a south wales paper wanting to know about local papers.
my answer. told them you cannot beat them
all the local news notmostly news from south wales etc etc.a good paper i get one six days aweek.

Posted by: mali williams  | October 1, 2007 9:24 PM

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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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