On page 36 ‘Police warning for motorists’ cautions motorists of the dangers of driving in wet weather. PC Ian Clark provides helpful advice for safer driving.
Readers may have been briefly concerned they were stuck in Groundhog Day, as page 35 carries the story ‘Warning to drive carefully in wet’ complete with PC Ian Clark providing helpful advice for safer driving. Yep, same story, one page apart.
Continuing past this to page 37 ‘The council forced to clear garden’ is a somewhat self-congratulatory tale of the council clearing the garden of a house in Foord Road.
Having sent several letters to apparently absent owners, the council employed a local firm to clear the garden, which had become a ‘magnet for fly tippers.’ Completing the article are two nice pics of workers clearing the garden.
This looked suspiciously like a story titled ‘Rubbish tip of a garden gets cleared’ which appeared the previous week on page 9 of Kentish Express. The same pics were used and around 50% of each article was identical. At least part of the press release was rewritten although without seeing the original it’s hard to tell who was lazier in this respect.
At least this is an improvement on allegations that the Herald likes to ‘sensationalise’ stories at the expense of what actually happened.
September 3 had ‘Youtube, Jake – Folkestone is great,’ where local photographer Dan Desborough ‘slammed the maker of a Youtube clip slating the town.’ Looking at threads on Folkestone Forums (http://www.folkestoneforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4420&page=4) it seems that not only were quotes taken out of context and the location of his exhibition given wrongly, but when contacted with corrections the Herald were unconcerned.
In ‘’Strop’ fails to sway town council over Remembrance Sunday clapping’, Terry Begent (he who is accused of throwing said ‘strop’) has posted a lengthy reply on the Herald’s parent website refusing to play ball, opening with – “Let's get the facts straight here! Firstly, I did not get a "strop on" and storm out of the meeting.” (http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/news/Strop-fails-sway-town-council-Remembrance-Sunday-clapping/article-1340573-detail/article.html)
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