They have a link for "Canterbury open day" above the link for "Swine flu update".
Probably not the kind of welcome they were going for...
Showing posts with label Canterbury. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canterbury. Show all posts
Thursday, 25 June 2009
Tuesday, 21 April 2009
As promised 2
The last inQuire seems rather some time ago now.
I looked at it again the other day thought and I was really pleased with the front page especially. I worked really hard to get that story. It was on Canterbury City Council's use of the RIPA.
That, for everyone who doesn't know what RIPA (I was in that situation before I wrote the story!), is the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. And it allows local councils to use covert surveillance to monitor people who they think could be committing crimes. It means councils have used CCTV to watch people fly tipping or other 'minor crimes'.
CCC have used this 23 times in five years.
And also in the final issue of inQuire, I wrote a piece for the features section of inQuire about whether Easter has lost its true meaning!
I was really pleased with this piece, as it gave me a chance to write about Jesus' last days in Jerusalem, and his death and resurrection.
It was hard to write, and certainly made a change from the news writing I usually do, but great to have something in the features section for my portfolio.
I looked at it again the other day thought and I was really pleased with the front page especially. I worked really hard to get that story. It was on Canterbury City Council's use of the RIPA.
That, for everyone who doesn't know what RIPA (I was in that situation before I wrote the story!), is the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. And it allows local councils to use covert surveillance to monitor people who they think could be committing crimes. It means councils have used CCTV to watch people fly tipping or other 'minor crimes'.
CCC have used this 23 times in five years.
And also in the final issue of inQuire, I wrote a piece for the features section of inQuire about whether Easter has lost its true meaning!
I was really pleased with this piece, as it gave me a chance to write about Jesus' last days in Jerusalem, and his death and resurrection.
It was hard to write, and certainly made a change from the news writing I usually do, but great to have something in the features section for my portfolio.
Monday, 9 March 2009
There's a lot I don't know (part 2)
We started the journey in an eventful fashion. I was trying to finish the inQuire news section together and it was taking a while.
The sun was shining brightly outside and my two companions were waiting to go.
When I finished in the office, I walked downstairs and set the alarm off because everyone else had gone, and put the alarm on without realising that I was still in there!
We had a real laugh on the way up - stopping at a Burger King somewhere between Canterbury and Durham, I asked for a large burger meal of some description. It was TINY!!!
But, not to be deterred, in full Wylie and Harvey fashion I picked myself up, and said "I'm not satisfied with this, please can I have another burger and some more chips?". They tried to take the burger away and give me a replacement one, but that would have been the same TINY size, so I had both, and some more chips, and felt thoroughly happy with my British complaint.
We thought about saying the Burger King people that we'd travelled five hours just to get to this Burger King and were there for a special 18th birthday meal...
The sun was shining brightly outside and my two companions were waiting to go.
When I finished in the office, I walked downstairs and set the alarm off because everyone else had gone, and put the alarm on without realising that I was still in there!
We had a real laugh on the way up - stopping at a Burger King somewhere between Canterbury and Durham, I asked for a large burger meal of some description. It was TINY!!!
But, not to be deterred, in full Wylie and Harvey fashion I picked myself up, and said "I'm not satisfied with this, please can I have another burger and some more chips?". They tried to take the burger away and give me a replacement one, but that would have been the same TINY size, so I had both, and some more chips, and felt thoroughly happy with my British complaint.
We thought about saying the Burger King people that we'd travelled five hours just to get to this Burger King and were there for a special 18th birthday meal...
There's a lot I don't know
Travelling up to Durham on Friday I realised a lot about the things I don't know.
We were in the car driving for 7 and a half hours following many signs to 'the north'. We went past lots of places I'd heard of, but didn't really know where they were.
By travelling over 300 miles from Canterbury to Durham, we'd nearly gone further than France, and the things I'd discovered felt almost as great.
I would have liked to updated this blog during the weekend, but I couldn't find a computer (partly because I wasn't looking for one) and I couldn't work out how to do it on my phone.
So I'm sitting in Whitstable now trying to rememeber some of the things I was thinking about then to write down now.
We were in the car driving for 7 and a half hours following many signs to 'the north'. We went past lots of places I'd heard of, but didn't really know where they were.
By travelling over 300 miles from Canterbury to Durham, we'd nearly gone further than France, and the things I'd discovered felt almost as great.
I would have liked to updated this blog during the weekend, but I couldn't find a computer (partly because I wasn't looking for one) and I couldn't work out how to do it on my phone.
So I'm sitting in Whitstable now trying to rememeber some of the things I was thinking about then to write down now.
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