March 2008 Archives
Search for Bucks bride and groom 2009
Posted by Julie Voyce on March 29, 2008 11:23 AM
Friday was a busy old day. I spent most of the morning trying to finalise details of a fantastic competition that we are going to run in our wedding magazine I Do next month. So far we have a £1,000 wedding dress to give away along with flowers, holiday vouchers, beauty treatments for the bride and free suit hire for the groom.
If you are getting married in 2009 make sure you don't miss the magazine, which is free within the papers. The winners will be the couple crowned Bucks bride and groom on 2009 and readers will get their chance to vote on who they think should win.
I was then invited along to The Elgiva in Chesham to meet with the manager Mark Barnes and PR Tina Humphries.
The papers sponsor the pantomime each year so we were mainly discussing how things were going with that and what we need to arrange this year. Amazing to think you have to have these discussions in March! Mark tells me they have already sold out on six performances!
My inbox was full of emails when I returned to the office and I would say 80 per cent of them were about potholes. It seems that everyone has a story to tell and a pothole to report. The state of the roads in this area is ridiculous and I just hope the council do actually spend their £3.25m wisely and don't just bodge the repairs so we are in the same situation next year.
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Dramatic start to the day
Posted by Julie Voyce on March 26, 2008 3:11 PM
I had a horrible start to today that. I was driving to work in Chalfont St Peter along the A413 when I was overtaken by a motorbike. Seconds later I saw the driver of the bike thrown in the air as it appeared he had collided with a bollard in the centre of the road.
It was a horrible sight and I was really surprised by my reaction, I just froze. The lady in the car behind me jumped straight out and went to help while I just sat in my car shaking. I have never witnessed a crash before and it has stayed with me all day, I just keep seeing the biker flying though the air.
He was lucky he wasn't hit by the car behind him. One of the reporters called the police and ambulance to find out how he was and apparently he escaped with minor injuries.
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Victory for parking campaign
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Posted by Julie Voyce on March 12, 2008 4:06 PM
I've just returned to the office after putting the papers to bed. It has been a busy old day and wasn't helped by the fact the fire alarm went off just as we were about the send the last couple of pages. Sometimes you can't help but feel everything is against you!
Anyway despite all of this I think we have some very strong stories and two of the best papers of the year so far.
Since January we have been running a campaign 'Free not Fee' to try and get Chiltern District Council to abandon their plans to introduce parking fee where previously there weren't any.
On Tuesday we discovered we have had success in Chalfont St Peter, Chalfont St GIles and Little Chalfont. However the areas where they didn't kick up as much fuss, Amersham and Chesham, are still being looked at for the possibility of introducing fees.
As my reporter said "You snooze, you lose". Hopefully these towns will now react.
Now I just have to cross my fingers the printers don't send the wrong pages to the wrong paper, which they seem to have managed to do for the last two weeks, thus undoing our hard work!
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This page contains an archive of all entries posted to Julie Voyce Blog : Editor - Buckinghamshire Advertiser & Buckinghamshire Examiner in the March 2008. They are listed from oldest to newest.
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