Editorial
READERS WILL REMEMBER WHEN the 2003 Crier unaccountably triumphed in the
Village Magazine Awards in the face of serious glossy competition. Alas,
alack-a-day! After three consecutive years in the awards, this year we did a
Henman as the glorious Colour District Quarterlies swept the board.
Ha! One page of colour currently costs as much as the rest of the magazine put together and things did not improve when the Cambridge Evening News advised miffed monthlies to get with it and start selling instead - just like those Quarterlies. Now there's a thought! Instead of our distributors tramping down muddy tracks to deliver the Crier free of charge, you can tramp up them - and buy it. From our defunct Station or nonexistent Village Shop of course...
Oh, but it was not always the case as you can read in this month's Profile reprint of yet another radio programme (what a famous village Swaffham Prior is) about us. Maybe one day, our old community life will be restored, but until then, readers can be assured that the little magazines that sprinkle the Spring Line will not be conglomerating into a District and glossing over the changes, but will continue as ever to do their level best to fill in the gap.
Remember Miss Swaffham Prior and Mr Puny Prior? The turfing out of a Village Hall cupboard reported in last month's edition seems to have unfortunately jogged a few memories - you may be meeting them again soon....
And despite huge efforts in the don't-belate-again department, we've flopped again! Village Collating deadline, we miss you!