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Two corrections to my post of the 17th. The intimation should have read, Smith, John, beloved husband of "The Strawberry Blonde".
There is also a superfluous apostrophe in Fridays . Jest spotted these the noo...

Was round to the local newsagent to pay the papers on Saturday and asked if there were any responses on the first edition. Response was, a number of customers have cancelled their order. Personally I think it will go down the same road as the Sunday Post, ie down the tubes. There are too many advertisements for holidays and ie food programmes, beauty treatments, etc. It is a newspaper for crying out loud. I can see D.C.T. going down the tubes.

And you forgot to mention the increase to the price of the daily edition as mentioned somewhere else by somebody else.

Price, it could be the reason for folks are cancelling there orders due to not liking the new format and or the 25% increase it the price of the paper. What is D.C.T.playing at. We, the public, are not numpties
A shot in the foot maybe. Watch this space!

"It's The Courier, Jim... but not as we know it!"

As soon as I read about the paper going tabloid, my first thought was "Goodbye, Courier old boy". However, Mrs J wants the recipes this week (I don't know why as she'll never use them) so that's £3.60 out of the week's housekeeping instead of the usual 48p on Saturday. With this being Day 3 - and they have certainly expanded the Local News pages today from 4 to 8 to make up for yesterday's loss - I am already warming to it. Monday had 17 sports pages, but apparently that's what readers were demanding. They didn't ask me! Anyway, I thought sports fans only read The Daily Record or The Sun or some other piffling non-newspapers.

Did you really expect it to be anything else Jester?

I have not bought a newspaper for well over 20 years. In fact I did not buy them when I was working either as my employer sent The Times and Telegraph from London at their expense! Can`t say I have missed them, although visiting the Courier`s web site is a daily occurance for local Tayside/Fife news. During the rugby season, my neighbour`s Daily Express is good for the Suduko puzzles as we watch games.

I get the newspapers online here everyday for free Laird. Like keeping up with the Mail and Burnley Express

I check the Courier every day - starting with the obituaries.

We get the FIFE edition of the Courier here in the auld grey toun .About 2 pages of a difference from the Dundee one . Went up 20% when it ceased to be a broadsheet too. On Friday it has competition from the worthy rag " The St.Andrews Citizen " for local news. Ye Citizen front page news today is about Fife councils effort to solve the Gull problem here. It involves a female Harris Hawk or may be more. If you visit here be prepared for dogfights overhead . I wonder what the odds of success are ? .

I am in Chongqing this weekend (Laird will know where that is) population 40 million! yes 40,000,000! opening a hospital tomorrow. Dead boring plac which is why I am checking the Forum now. Glad I have Jester to cheer me up with all his tales of woe. Good stuff Jim boy!!

Being invited to open a new hospital in a city of 400 million sounds like a real honour, Ian. I'm not sure that your topic is in the right stream - it seems to qualify as more than "Irrelevant Banter" - at least in my book! What does 'opening a hospital' involve? In what capacity have you been invited? Do you represent an international or national organization? A charity? An NGO? In what language/languages will you perform your duty/honour? Please tell us more - your experience sounds fascinating.