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| The T&A has become a sorry excuse for a paper. They seem to be concentrating on becoming an online version, presumably more lucrative due to advertising, but the print version to me is not worth buying any more, I used to have it delivered for very many years but it started to go downhill some years back and I think it has just got worse and worse.
Trying to defend a city centre having a crater for a middle for a decade has probably become easier, it's like when debts go from hundreds of millions into a billion, people get desensitised and it just goes over their heads after a while. But if you think about it for a moment - a decade - T E N _ Y E A R S - with no sign of anything happening - is 100% inexcusable and a disgrace in anyone's book. To find the local rage patronising critics and posturing in favour of Westfield (who seem to me to treat the whole city with utter contempt, and rarely - if ever - think it worth the effort to speak to the public of Bradford directly). Surely such a scandal should have been meat and drink for the city's newspaper to get its teeth into?
And that's without even going to the Odeon farrago.
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| I wouldn't mourn its loss. If I thought I could get away with it I'd happily cause it.
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1271.jpg Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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| If the resultant gap in the market were filled by a born and bred in the city alternative then, other than the fact it would leave a number of people out of work, I would be more than happy to see it go. If, on the other hand, it provided an opportunity for a Leeds based paper to to take over, then no. Bradford has already been diminished more than enough and to have a city of our size getting it's info from a Leeds based rag would just be too much for my pride to stomach, if I'm honest.
Not on the main (or even secondary) rail map, not mentioned on road signs until around ten miles from the city centre, 4th largest local authority in England and we're in the Weeds city region (for christ's sake), and not even on the local tv weather map most flaming weeks.....we've suffered enough, don't you think?
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| Quote: Bulliac "...
Not on the main (or even secondary) rail map, not mentioned on road signs until around ten miles from the city centre, 4th largest local authority in England and we're in the Weeds city region (for christ's sake), and not even on the local tv weather map most flaming weeks.....we've suffered enough, don't you think?'"
Perhaps Bradford should stage a hold-up of the Yorkshire Post. Should be safe enough as based on the above, the rozzers would never be able to find it.
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| Bulliac, thats my thinking too! Sick of being part of Leeds city region. Even on the bbc website its now leeds and west yorkshire!
The T&A employs how many people directly and indirectly in BRadford? it must be hundreds! how many jobs can Bradford afford to lose?
It may be quite poor in some regards, but its better than nothing, or going weekly like the Halifax courier has!
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