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# NameComments
601 Kelly Hadfield
602 Louise RandallA woeful move.
603 sheila townsend
604 jenny armfield
605 AnonymousMEN used to be a great product. Now it is suffering, wonder if the two are connected?
606 Rachel Broadley
607 nicole grimsdale
608 P. Roche
609 AnonymousAll I can say is keep the papers local.
610 Caroline Sampson
611 David Thomson
612 Peter FieldingKeep local reporting is very important
613 Dean
614 Tom Foster
615 Anonymous
616 Sarah Wroe
617 Fatima Martin
618 Anonymous
619 Kate Turner
620 Rachael Schofield
621 AnonymousHow can a paper run from manchester, a city of well over a million adequately represent a town and the surrounding country at a fraction of the size. The editorial and journalistic staff in Manchester can have no comprehension of what actually happens in our area and probably would not know where Macclesfield was on a map let alone any of the surrounding vilages. You only have to look at National media coverage to realise how myopic city dwellers are to the needs of the countryside and its population. Should this change occur then I will probably stop buying the paper. It is a repeat of the Beeching mistakes with the railway network, if you cut the roots off, then large parts of the trunk also die, it has taken 40 years for the railways to recover, Ido not think the Macc express has the resiliance to recover from a serious pruning of its key local staff.
622 Marie-Claire Daly
623 AnonymousLocal newspapers must be preserved at all costs
624 Laura Cockram
625 P Smithson
626 Anonymous
627 owen hughes
628 AnonymousLocal reporting is so important for communities.
629 rhonda carrier
630 Margaret Griffiths
631 Natalie Bradbury
632 Christopher SullivanThe news will become older and the paper will become less valid to locals meaning its gradual decline and consequentail eventual loss.
633 Enid ShelmerdineI started my journalist career on the Stockport Advertiser, in 1965, when it was in competition with the Stockport Express and now - at the end of my career - work on The Times. Along the way I worked for or with many of the papers now under threat, either as a staffer or freelance reporter, before moving on to the nationals and radio and TV. Where will young reporters work now? Who will train the journalists of the future? These newspapers must be saved for the sake of their staffs and the communities that they serve.
634 Peter HammondJohn Tither of the original Wilmsow Advertiser [now the Wilslow Express] will be spinning in his grave!
635 Helen DaltonThis is really sad news. The local offices are vital to the communities that they serve. Most, if not all of these offices have been there for many many years and are the main source of news for residents and businesses alike. Such action would surely mean the decline or even the end of the newspapers concerned.
636 Steve Middleton
637 Anonymous
638 Anonymous
639 Anonymous
640 Paul Allen
641 Andrew Gait
642 KAREN BEST
643 Anonymous
644 Anonymous
645 jayne emsley
646 jayne emsleyA local Manchester paper is where I began my career. This is very
647 Anonymousthe tameside advertiser is at the centre of community news and is a valuble source of information
648 Anonymousthe tameside advertiser is at the centre of community news and is a valuble source of information