Calf born up Mossy Lea

Glossop is currently very lucky to have some enterprising people publishing an alternative to the commercial local papers.

The Gazette was born during a gap in the publication of the long standing local paper the Glossop Chronicle. The other local paper - the free one, The Glossop Advertiser has next to nothing about Glossop in it. The Advertiser is mostly about Tameside and this seems to have been an extra factor in the creation of the Gazette.

The Chronicle is being published again now but frankly it's not beyond telling us all about Droylsden, Dukinfield and Hyde instead of Glossop.

I see there has been some discussion on holdthefrontpage.co.uk about the creation of the Gazette by non-journalists but I'm sure no one buys the other publications for the quality of their writing.

The photo has some pages from a couple of the issues - it's now up to Issue 4.

The Gazette is quite a mix of the very interesting, the very strange and the very opinionated but its all VERY LOCAL so is going down well with at least some of the locals.

The latest issue has a wonderful description of all the Glossop Market stalls and pictures of the stall holders.

I love the Front page banner, after 'Local News for Local People' comes, We draw the line at Mottram Moor - that's Tameside you see - nearly Manchester :-)

A cheeky sense of humour shows up in many headlines - my personal favourite is the Mountain rescue team report headline
"Townies come to grief on the hills, again"

So why have I called this one "Calf born up Mossy Lea".

This quote comes from an old Glossop English teacher Mr Dawes who used it in class as an example of the parochialism of the journalism in 'The Chron'.

Let's hope the Gazette survives and maybe one day it will use that headline.

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