Caroline Stocks on the obvious combination of journalism, media and farming
I’m writing this a few thousand feet over the Atlantic. Despite usually having narcoleptic tendencies whenever I board any kind of transportation, I’m annoyingly wide awake. Plus I’ve managed to pick the one seat on the plane where the tv set isnt working so I can’t watch a film – hence the blogging. I’ve been [...]
So Rupert Murdoch has finally decided to make good his threat of charging to read his Times and Sunday Times websites. From June people will be have to pay £1 a day or £2 a week to access news across the sites, which currently attract about 20m readers. The debate about paywalls has been going [...]
When I was younger, my birthday wish was to either have a card read out on CBBC, or to have a birthday shout-out on Radio Nottingham. I remember sitting by the cassette player with my sister, waiting to press the ‘record’ and ‘play’ buttons to tape the moment Dennis McCarthy said my name. Sadly, waiting [...]
My favourite Lincolnshire delphinium-grower was in town with his grandma today, so I met them both for a spot of breakfast. It being the Southbank, it was impossible to buy a simple bacon buttie, so instead we feasted on croissants, Gruyère, scrambled eggs and prosciutto, plus coffee that came in handle-less cups (apparently it’s now [...]
