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New Look Sussex Express

On 6 Oct 2012 at 2:42pm Lewes Browser wrote:

It's difficult to tell the difference between the newsy bits and advertising features.
But I do like the idea of a weekly paper, published on Friday, carrying a Weather Forecast feature. Especially one that starts with the sentence "At the time of writing this on Tuesday ..." Brilliant stuff!

On 6 Oct 2012 at 6:12pm Mme B wrote:

It looks cleaner and brighter, though I'm not sure why we are charged another 10p for it.

On 6 Oct 2012 at 8:20pm lovely lady wrote:

soory did not like the new suusex express

On 6 Oct 2012 at 8:22pm lovely lady wrote:

sorry did not like the new suusex express
tried to post without glasses on

On 6 Oct 2012 at 8:40pm Sussex Jim wrote:

If they want to raise the price, just do it. No need to hide it behind a different style which is no better than before. The usual game of "where's Wally" is the same (spot the reference to Norman Baker on each page); but take out the property and car advertising and we still have a
similar paper to before.
Not a lot.

On 7 Oct 2012 at 9:06am king cnut wrote:

Seem they trawl this site for a lot of their news!

On 7 Oct 2012 at 11:20am pedant wrote:

Anyone else noticed that there's at least one spelling mistake on every page. maybe they'll use the extra 10p to buy a spellchecker for their illiterate journalists. Mind you still might be difficult to see the screen with your head so far up storming Norman's bottom.

On 7 Oct 2012 at 7:29pm jrsussex wrote:

It would appear to be an unfortunate fact that local newspapers from Brighton though to Eastbourne are hand in hand with the LibDems, hence the level of print they receive irrespective of how newsworthy it may be.

On 7 Oct 2012 at 7:45pm Trevor wrote:

Still a load if tosh ! Can't believe people still buy it!! News stories are so poorly written

On 7 Oct 2012 at 7:48pm Southover Queen wrote:

I suspect it's more to do with who sends them press releases they can cut and paste, to be honest, jrsussex. (That could well be where the spelling mistakes come from as well)

On 7 Oct 2012 at 7:58pm Peter wrote:

Hopefully it won't last much longer.

On 7 Oct 2012 at 10:41pm Mme B wrote:

But then what?

On 8 Oct 2012 at 5:26pm dizzydi wrote:

Wasn't impressed by new look paper. It was full of news stories that weren't relevant to our area

On 8 Oct 2012 at 5:27pm dizzydi wrote:

Wasn't impressed by new look paper. It was full of news stories that weren't relevant to our area

On 10 Oct 2012 at 6:54am Earl of Lewes wrote:

It's been declining for years, particularly since Eccles stepped down. Too many articles are from outside the area and there are some desperate space fillers, like the 'Faith News' page. No-one's to blame really, it's part of a nationwide decline in local papers thanks to the internet. The advertising revenues aren't there any more to support employing enough journalists. I used to buy it because I found the lack of stories curiously comforting, but it's too expensve now. What was it ten years ago? 25p?