Nottingham Post

I understand the frustration.

I had a season ticket at Forest for 25 years before I covered Forest for the Nottingham Post.

I had to give my season ticket up.

I spent years and years and years going up and down the country in League One.

Everything about it was staged like a working royal trip, advanced briefing notes about the charities, published timings so supporters knew where to gather, and the Sussex's very own press rota with, tellingly, a veto that has rendered at least one tabloid persona non grata, At one stop, a reporter overheard charity staff coming out beforehand to coach the crowd on how loudly to cheer and what to shout.

The Nottingham Post's own editor wrote a blistering piece about council protection officers diverted and barriers deployed and a police car blocking a road, none of it for free.

All for a couple Buckingham Palace itself calls private citizens in one of the most deprived districts in the country.

And the Mail's Rebecca English asked the sharpest question.

Every man and his dog was out there because it's such a hotbed of different countries and different things that are going on.

To the Nottingham Evening Post now, 19th March 1943, for headline news.

This is front page news.

Let me just remind you of that later on.

No, no, nothing to do with us.

They probably don't want the bill.

Well, let's stay with the Nottingham Evening Post, and we go to the 15th of December, 1944.

Not keen on turkey.

One user wrote, everything she does is calculated, choreographed and heavily rehearsed.

Natalie Fahey wrote a guest column in the Express in which she said, as the editor of the Nottingham Post, I know this city well and I know how hard people work to help those who are struggling.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, parachuted into Nottingham on Thursday, and while a small crowd of loyal fans waiting for them were smiling, thousands more will be fuming at the gall of their pseudo-royal circus.

There will be a cost to the Nottingham taxpayer.

Nottingham was the first one they had after their engagement, and the first one they go back, they go to Nottingham.

I think the best thing I read about that was what the Nottingham Post editor wrote.

Um, she wrote a very good article saying, you know, there was, it was underwhelming.

The overwhelming response of the people of Nottingham was not positive.

And so I started off at my local paper in, in Nottingham, so I live near Nottingham now still, and, um, started off there.

Did five years on the Nottingham Post, and was kind of doing general news for about two and a half, three years, um, which is sort of everything, all of, including, you know, court stuff and, um, magistrates and, and coroner's court and all those things.

And then did two years as education correspondent, so that's a bit more, a bit more desk-based, a bit more specialized.

And then I just thought, well, like, you know, like many reporters on, on provincial city, big city papers, you think, "Well, I want to have a go at the nationals.

Well, I've got a, uh, an archive newspaper article here.

It's the Nottingham Evening Post from, uh, March 1974.

Yeah.

And the headline is Billy Is A Hero.

You just reminded me about a cutting I've got, and it's February '74.

Yeah.

It's on the, the TV listings page of the Nottingham Evening Post.

You're alongside various programs, like Crossroads-

Well, the

Nottingham Evening Post, which is the local newspaper, they do like discount.

You can cut them out and use vouchers and stuff.

They've always done that.