12 January 2012

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The comments in today’s East Grinstead Courier and Observer article that ‘council decides to sell manor’ and ‘Town Council is selling East Court’ under the photo of the building are not correct.

There is no intention of any sale of East Court.

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Here follows the response from East Grinstead Courier and Observer:

Dear Julie and Norman

I’m writing to express my sincere apologies about a mistake in today’s Courier & Observer.

You may have heard we had a big power cut on Tuesday which set us back three hours and left us short of time to fill the paper.

Things were then done in such a rush that I did not notice a serious error when I checked over our pages before sending them to press yesterday – our production team has misread Gemma’s story about the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, and wrongly thought that East Court was being sold off, instead of the Parish Halls, when writing the picture caption and the ‘strap’ under the headline.

Unfortunately, as is the case with almost all local newspapers these days, the design and layout of our paper is all carried out in a centralising ‘subbing hub’ based in Essex. So inevitably a lot of mistakes are made by those people who are operating from the Essex office and do not know East Grinstead or its issues.

But it is my fault for not picking up on it. I should have spotted it – and I am very sorry if it causes you to receive any strange telephone calls as a result. Please feel free to direct any complaints or confusion my way.

I will of course write a correction to be published in next week’s paper.

Perhaps you may like to forward this email to all the councillors to help them fend off any complaints they receive from residents.

Again, sincere apologies. I am so angry at myself for missing this – I will be much more meticulous in future.

Claire.
Claire Cromie | News Editor | 01293 597614