Reader’s letter

DEAR Editor, having read your reports of the Town Meeting I agree with Mike Welply’s praise of your thorough and wide-ranging service. I have long thought that in doing this Thame News does what local newspapers traditionally did before the advent of free newspapers.
I do not imply criticism of newspaper journalists who are probably not numerous enough or for whom the time and column inches are not available for them to get to grips with their areas. Community links and the plethora of volunteer and organisational groups to be found anywhere and not least in Thame are what make life worth living and, in reflecting them in our town, Thame News is also richly nourishing them. I hope that increasing numbers of people discover, read, value and use Thame News.

I write from experience, having spent a lifetime in the middle reaches of journalism and learned my craft in the weekly newspapers of forty years ago, when my job depended on going out and getting the stories to fill my pages. It was those stories which made people buy and read the papers.

Norman Brand