The Kintyre Forum

Kintyre Amateur Swimming Club held its inaugrual club championships in Aqualibrium on Sunday with around 40 local young swimmers taking to the pool. A picture and article appeared in the local paper with the results to follow next week.
Why does our local paper, the paper that many of us (local people) buy each week to read our local news, print a huge swimming article at the same time about a 'Machrihanish teenager' who only lives in Machrihanish when he's on holiday, hardly local news is it? What are the local young swimmers who competed last Sunday to think? While I take nothing away from the achievements of this young swimmer and hopefully someday local swimmers from our club have similar success I do wish the local press would print local news first and foremost.

Also why do we get Morrisons adverts in the Campbeltown Courier when the closest on is a good 4 hours away! Mind you my closest is 4 minutes away!

not the first person i've heard comment about that swimming story, their point was that the results could have been printed last week and the story about the young boy (great achievements tho they were) could have been printed anytime. i too thought it took the shine off the achievements of the local youngsters, why bother with the pic when the results were not included?

i am of course biased as i've always maintained there is far too much info and news that has nothing to do with kintyre printed in the paper, its easy to get the feeling that once they've finished with local news they're stumped for things to do for the other four and a half days of the week, and yes, i do think it would be that easy a job, the phrase "standing on my head" springs to mind, but that would probably be the hardest part. i even find myself reading the farmers section, not that i know any farmers but at least its local news

swim wrote:Kintyre Amateur Swimming Club held its inaugrual club championships in Aqualibrium on Sunday with around 40 local young swimmers taking to the pool. A picture and article appeared in the local paper with the results to follow next week.
Why does our local paper, the paper that many of us (local people) buy each week to read our local news, print a huge swimming article at the same time about a 'Machrihanish teenager' who only lives in Machrihanish when he's on holiday, hardly local news is it? What are the local young swimmers who competed last Sunday to think? While I take nothing away from the achievements of this young swimmer and hopefully someday local swimmers from our club have similar success I do wish the local press would print local news first and foremost.

You could have posted the news article and results on here.....

Nice reply to your letter in the Courier.

So it was your own fault after all!

The swimmer that you are referring to swims for the same club that my son swims for in Dundee. He gets no mention in our local papers.

But more importantly Neil, did your jacket ever turn up? there was no mention in the Courier!

Wife bought me another from designer matalan.

Hoots the scoop with a four page spread of a petrol station 52 miles away????

hoots the scoop wrote:Hoots the scoop with a four page spread of a petrol station 52 miles away????

Money talks.

The Courier did indeed print and reply to the swimming clubs e-mail. It was never an issue that the results were not printed. That's just the paper trying to get out of what they did! The club knew they wouldn't print the results as they were not sent to the paper until after the deadline for that weeks edition. The issue in question here was that they chose to print such a huge article (sent to the Courier by the swimmers father) on a swimmer who has a holiday home here, and give it such a large space above the real local sports news about the local club holding its first championship with over 40 local young swimmers.