The biggest local paper, the Hereford Times, is firmly controlled by Herefordshire Conservatives and is conspicuous by its almost total lack of coverage of the Wiggileaks scandal.
But cracks are showing: one of their reporters, under the nomme de guerre 'Hereford Hack' has today posted the following to a Facebook thread which has been mocking the paper:
"Some of us are here in Hereford for the long haul and share your frustration that we are occasionally turning a blind eye to the big stories. You will know that we regularly check out these pages and pick up on a few leads. Please don't give up on your local jobbing reporters just yet."
Clearly an honest, local reporter waiting for the editor - who has been bought by Wiggin's cronies - to go.
Interesting.
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Received a letter today from the Crown Prosecution Service. A clear effort had been made to open it, but the CPS had sellotaped over the seal.
I got a letter last year from the Police which had obviously been opened then resealed.
In neither case was it because of who the letter was to ( a nobody in the sticks) but who it was from - important bodies in our society.
Not only the CPS, but the Met, now routinely sellotape down the seals of their letters.
The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards goes one further: he seals his letter in an envelope, then this is placed inside a larger envelope which in turned is sealed down with a printed label.
Clearly, all of the above expect someone within the postal service to attempt to read their mail.
The question is - who is trying to watch the watchdogs?
'AN EXPENSES ACCOUNT' Jim Miller's adventures in the banana republic of Nth Herefordshire leominsterindependent@live.co.uk
