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850MediaHappy birthday to Fleet Street’s ranters
The inimitable Gentlemen Ranters site – described by The Times as “a brilliant compendium of reminiscences of the great days of Fleet...
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The Chronicle 60: Ringing the changes
Don Bentley was one shave behind the world and one drink ahead of it. He sat at the bar in Mahoney’s, half...
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Real ale and real newspapers
Don Bentley was sipping a new beer he had discovered, and thinking of newspapers as he always did. Beer and newspapers went...
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Oil spill catastrophe highlights Tassie dangers
NEWS of environmental catastrophe in Japan, has eclipsed another pollution event on the other side of the world that has implications for...
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The Forests … The Forests …
March15 is D-Day for Tasmania’s high conservation old-growth forests. Tasmanians who love forests have been fighting to protect them for decades. On...
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The Chronicle 59: In New Media is Grub Street reborn
Don Bentley had been brought up in the hot metal days of journalism but he found something exciting, pulsating about the electronic...
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The Chronicle 58: Fleet Street of the Sky
Bentley peered out of the windows of the bus taking him to work. The wire mesh covering the glass obscured his view...
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The Chronicle 57: Newspaper heaven in the platteland
The phone rang two or three times and Don Bentley was not in a hurry to lift it. He sat at the...
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The Chronicle 56: Fleet Street at work and play
Don Bentley climbed the marble staircase of the Sun newspaper’s headquarters with slow, deliberate steps. He had seen this imposing stairwell before,...
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Chronicle 55: Life and death in black and white
Don Bentley chained the front wheel of his bicycle to the railings of the Commercial Road car park and started to walk...
