Ripon has been ill served by it's local paper for some time now. Devoid as it is of any attempt at investigative journalism, the local rag seems content to publish endless photographs of pubescent schoolgirls wiggling their little tits at the camera at the loathsomely ubiquitous 'school proms' which have slithered into our consciousness courtesy of our equally abhorrent 'special relationship'. Interspersed between the adolescent cleavage are the tedious platitudes of assorted 'Mare's Diaries' where we learn how delighted they are, how much they have enjoyed, how they are looking forward to, but not, we notice, what they have achieved.
There are, of course some reasonably significant issues to tackle in this town, but now the news hounds have jumped ship and doggy paddled for all they're worth to the more genteel shores of 'Harrow-gate', better known as Betty's, we can, I suppose, only expect more of the same trivial tosh we've been subjected to for the past couple of years.
At £1.20 you might think the
Ripon Gazette represents pretty poor value for money........and you may well be right!
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