No fires in Tring

Heathcote, Colin2015

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Summary

Paul Barnes is a 21-year-old aspiring journalist who, after leaving school with a couple of O levels five years earlier, finally lands a job as a reporter with the Berkhamsted Gazette, part of Hertfordshire Newspapers Ltd. Whilst the obtaining of the newspaper stories has been embellished for (hopefully) comic effect, the recorded articles in the following chapters are as appeared in the Gazette. The characters featured are based on people who worked for the company, although their names have been changed. 'No Fires In Tring' is a fictionalised account of life on a rural local weekly newspaper in the mid to late 1960s; a world which has long since disappeared. Since those days many dozens of small weekly and regional daily papers in the UK have disappeared to be replaced by free papers, news web sites and information churning social media networks. The local offices of the Berkhamsted Gazette, Tring and District News and Hemel Hempstead Gazette have been closed; the papers are no longer produced in the county of Hertfordshire but in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. A career in weekly or regional newspaper journalism or photography is now open to comparatively few young people as papers increasingly source their 'news' and pictures from the public and PR practitioners