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The County Press Appears In Private Eye

Wednesday, 14th October, 2009 at 12:39 pm, Isle of Wight

Island-wide, Overseas, Print

Well done to the Country Press for gracing the hallowed pages of Private Eye. Quite an honour.

Our copy just arrived today and flicking through we saw a CP headline on page 7 – “Guides delighted with their rubbish award.”

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The County Press Appears In Private Eye

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7 Responses to “The County Press Appears In Private Eye”

  1. +3 Click if you like this comment Alan T     says:
    14, October 2009 at 12:44 pm

    There are often interesting things about the Isle of Wight council in the ‘Rotten Boroughs’ section of PE

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  2. Click if you like this comment DDH     says:
    14, October 2009 at 5:41 pm

    Well spotted Mike Starke is my guess.

    I hope it’s our squeaky clean council keeping us out of the eye rather than the far worse shenanigans elsewhere around the UK.

    Our officer salaries and consultants fees remain a real cause for concern.

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  3. Click if you like this comment Sad Owl     says:
    14, October 2009 at 11:38 pm

    This did make me chuckle heartily.

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  4. +2 Click if you like this comment Sal     says:
    16, October 2009 at 9:10 am

    I read this morning that ‘Percy Sutson’ thinks the humour of the headline went over our heads?

    Not so ‘Percy’ my dear fellow, it is the ‘humour contained therein’ that had us laughing in the first place – hence the praise.

    Good to see you’re still logging on to VB! Are you all still having to take it in turns to access the Internet though?

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    • +1 Click if you like this comment Descendent       says:
      19, October 2009 at 11:58 pm

      I confess it was me who sent the ‘Guides delighted…’ headline to P.E. – I’m rather pleased it didn’t go un-noticed, but equally I’m surprised anyone felt it worth further attention on here and in Percy’s column…

      I might take up sending newspaper clippings to Private Eye more regularly – they paid me £10 for it!

      Of course, if the IW Council took up the practice of deliberately printing similar errors in that rubbish little ‘infozine’ of theirs, it could be a nice little earner…

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