Evening Standard retreats from Medway towns
Posted by
Axegrinder
on 3 December 2008 at 17:24
Tags: Evening Standard
Strolling down the rather beautiful High Street in Rochester, Kent, on Wednesday afternoon, Axegrinder popped into a shop to buy an Evening Standard.
“Enjoy it while you can,” said the newsagent. “We’ve just heard that from Monday it won’t be distributed anywhere in the Medway towns.”
Quickly turning to page two, one finds an article explaining “changes to printing times and distribution”, but no mention that the capital’s evening paper has decided to say farewell to Rochester, Chatham and Gillingham.
Next year, the introduction of new high-speed commuter trains to St Pancras International will make places such as Rochester a mere 30-odd minutes from London.
It’s strange, then, that the Evening Standard should now decide to abandon the old cathedral city.
Tags: Evening Standard
