Next year will be the 20th anniversary of Cranfield's monthly newsletter/village magazine.
It's become quite an institution in the village in its original Cranfield News version and then Cranfield Express. It was started by Allen Leach and Carole Jones who ran an energetic and successful typesetting business from an office in the High Street. It was warmly welcomed and set a high standard for local community publications. When they decided to take a different path in life a group led by current editor and proprietor Peter Hinson set up Cranfield Express in April 2000.
As often happens, the original group (included myself) melted away and Peter was left at the tiller. And in the engine room. And in the for'ard hold and in the bilges when the leaks needed attending too. He has been doing it for 13 years now, 12 times a year and it is still a mainstay of village communication.
His persuasion techniques have roped me back into writing news and doing a monthly Parish Matters column. But it is Peter who does the heavy lifting, megabytes, gigabytes and terabytes, juggling macs, PCs and software. I get texts and emails from him at silly times though I don't read them at silly times. So every time it comes through the door you need to remember Peter slaving away plus the volunteers who get it out round the village. In the age of mass electronic communication, including blogs like this one, lots of stuff is under the radar.
Thanks to Cranfield Express it gets to you.
It's become quite an institution in the village in its original Cranfield News version and then Cranfield Express. It was started by Allen Leach and Carole Jones who ran an energetic and successful typesetting business from an office in the High Street. It was warmly welcomed and set a high standard for local community publications. When they decided to take a different path in life a group led by current editor and proprietor Peter Hinson set up Cranfield Express in April 2000.
As often happens, the original group (included myself) melted away and Peter was left at the tiller. And in the engine room. And in the for'ard hold and in the bilges when the leaks needed attending too. He has been doing it for 13 years now, 12 times a year and it is still a mainstay of village communication.
His persuasion techniques have roped me back into writing news and doing a monthly Parish Matters column. But it is Peter who does the heavy lifting, megabytes, gigabytes and terabytes, juggling macs, PCs and software. I get texts and emails from him at silly times though I don't read them at silly times. So every time it comes through the door you need to remember Peter slaving away plus the volunteers who get it out round the village. In the age of mass electronic communication, including blogs like this one, lots of stuff is under the radar.
Thanks to Cranfield Express it gets to you.
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