<P><B>WINNER OF THE </B><B>LAKELAND BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2022</B><br><B><br>''For those who know about provincial newspapers, this will be a classic and a gem. Those who don''t know will envy what they have missed'' </B><br>MELVYN BRAGG<br><br><B>''Brisk and entertaining. A very readable love letter to a disappearing world, told with verve and tenderness'' </B><br>STUART MACONIE, author of <I>Pies and Prejudice</I><br><br><B>''Gut-bustingly funny, poignant and packed with astonishing insider information''</B><br>M. W. CRAVEN, author of the award-winning <I>The Puppet Show</I><br><br><B>''Local journalism has never seemed more exotic than in this part-memoir, part-ode to that disappearing art, which is as funny as it is endearing . . . Told with a tender fondness, the bonkers, baffling but vital world of local press is paraded with the style that it deserves''</B><br>JONATHAN WHITELAW, <I>Sun</I><br><br><B>''Refreshingly honest, engagingly self-deprecating, tremendously funny and more