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Sunday Telegraph:

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Bash the railways and tangentially include royalty in the story.

A perfect Phil Space Telegraph article.
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Bash the railways and tangentially include royalty in the story.

A perfect Phil Space Telegraph article.

I guess it's helpful that the railways provide the Telegraph and other media with a rich source of such articles.....
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Be even more helpful if it named the station.   The nearest to Bucklebury as the crow flies is Midgham - is it there?
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Be even more helpful if it named the station.

I scanned it a few times before spotting Theale in the third paragraph. Better journalism would've included the station name in the headline or first paragraph, which should contain the 5Ws - what, where, when, who, why.
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Quote from: bobm on Today at 14:00:10
Be even more helpful if it named the station.

I scanned it a few times before spotting Theale in the third paragraph. Better journalism would've included the station name in the headline or first paragraph, which should contain the 5Ws - what, where, when, who, why.

.....or in the case of The Guardian, why oh why oh why oh why oh why!  Wink
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... Better journalism would've included the station name in the headline or first paragraph ...


Yes, but we're discussing the Telegraph here.  Roll Eyes
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.....or in the case of The Guardian, why oh why oh why oh why oh why!  Wink

................and they would have misspelt Theale   Roll Eyes 
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