Fire crews merger (From Bicester Advertiser)
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Fire crews merger
11:50am Monday 30th April 2012 in News
Plans to create a single fire control room for Oxfordshire and Berkshire will be discussed today.
Fire chiefs are pressing ahead with a merger after a Thames Valley scheme collapsed last year.
The committee will meet at 10am at County Hall, Oxford. The public can attend.
Comments(4)
xjohnx
says...
7:36pm Tue 1 May 12
sheik hoarmarney wrote:Oh! You wanted to take part?
Just a small point here, the meeting started at 10.00 but it didnt get into the paper untill 11.50. Thats handy then!
Why didn't they invite you to the meeting personaly?
Get a grip!
Noodle999
says...
11:54am Wed 2 May 12
xjohnx wrote:The original comment makes a completely valid point; what use is it telling OM readers about a meeting that the public can attend, after it's started?
sheik hoarmarney wrote:Oh! You wanted to take part?
Just a small point here, the meeting started at 10.00 but it didnt get into the paper untill 11.50. Thats handy then!
Why didn't they invite you to the meeting personaly?
Get a grip!
For starters it's gramatically incorrect, specifically in the wrong tense... it should say "The public could attend", not "can".
And to top it off that isn't the only glaring inaccuracy in the article, it isn't a "Thames Valley" scheme that collapsed last year but rather a NATIONAL scheme for the regionalisation of Fire Control rooms which would have involved the services in question becoming served by a much larger "South East" regional control room.
Quite how the reporters can **** up such a tiny story so badly is beyond me?
Noodle999
says...
11:56am Wed 2 May 12
In future I'd suggest to the reporter/editor that when they realise at nearly midday they've forgotten to post a story about a 10am meeting they just say "oops" and don't bother posting it at all to save the embarassment.
sheik hoarmarney says...
7:30pm Mon 30 Apr 12