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Hertford and Stortford has gone red as
@joshdeanuk
has overturned
@JulieMarsonMP
majority of 19,620, winning by 4,748
@HertStortford
@HertStortLabour
@HertAndStortLD
@EastHertsGreen
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CORRECTION: In the 2 years we’ve been offering our MP a fortnightly platform for an unedited 900-word column,
#PartyGate
is the 2nd time we’ve directed her (as we do with other columnists) to address a burning issue (1st was voting against feeding starving kids).
Oh, sorry editor of Bishop’s Stortford Independent but not true it's only once you (rudely) told me what I should write about (despite having already commented on it). Here’s an email from October 2020 when you tried to force me into writing what you wanted. Jog any memories?
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Dear
@JulieMarsonMP
#BorisJohnson
has always enjoyed your full support. Now that he’s been found to have broken his own law, do you - as PPS to Justice Secretary
@DominicRaab
, an ex magistrate and policeman’s daughter - still back him?
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We have spied da man!
@TomHolland1996
arrives at the old post office in
#Stortford
to start filming for
#SpiderManFarFromHome
. He'll be at News & Booze in North Street later. Pop in and see us at the Indie at 12 North Street, Tom - we have cake and tea
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We're out today - and boy does it feel good to say that. Let us know what you think
#feedbackcrucial
#workinprogress
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One week from today
#stortford
will have a brand new newspaper & website which properly reflects its community. Say no to clickbait
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We don't publish our readers' letters online (we reserve them for our printed edition every Wednesday). But we had to make an exception for this one...
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Regardless of political persuasion, the failure of
@JulieMarsonMP
to issue a statement on where she stands on
#BorisJohnson
is appalling. The lack of engagement borders on disdain and contempt for the voters she claimed in Jan 2020 she wanted to represent
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Latest Survation poll predicts
@joshdeanuk
will beat
@JulieMarsonMP
in a Labour landslide on July 4 to become next MP for Hertford & Stortford as Lab holds a staggering lead of 11.8 points
@HertStortLabour
@HertStortford
@EastHertsGreen
@HertAndStortLD
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Dear
@JulieMarsonMP
, as you have decided to no longer engage with offline constituents in
#Stortford
via the privilege and advantage of your Indie column, could you give your views & thoughts on today’s developments here so that we can inform your constituents please? Thank you
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Dear
@JulieMarsonMP
Can you explain to your constituents of Hertford & Stortford why you voted against a
#WindfallTax
?
#CostOfLivingCrisis
Rather than step up and back
@UKLabour
's plans for a
#WindfallTax
to support people with rising energy bills,
@JulieMarsonMP
chose to abandon them and vote against.
We need an MP who stands up for residents in Hertford & Stortford facing real hardship, not oil and gas giants.
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Dear
@HertStortford
It’s time to break the silence. The electorate of Hertford and Stortford that you profess to represent have a right to know: does
#BorisJohnson
have your full support in light of the resignations of
#RishiSunak
@
#sajidjavid
? 🤷♂️
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Regrettably, for the second week in a row, we have had to spike a column. Our Nature Notes writer
@jonoForgham
had been directed to address birdlife at Wall Wood near
@HatfieldForest
but instead went off piste to Hertford East station and wrote about feral pigeon flocks
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.
@SpursOfficial
defensive duo
@clement_lenglet
and
@JTanganga99
made it their goal to deliver pressies to young patients and staff at Princess Alexandra Hospital
@NHSHarlow
@thespursweb
@TheSpursExpress
@spursshow
@Spurs_fl
@TottenhamNews
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Thanks for highlighting, Will 👍
Absolute scenes in Bishop’s Stortford...
“We have asked Julie Marson’s office to forward us the ‘local newspaper industry rules’ that say a columnist should dictate a newspaper’s content to its editor.”
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Good morning
@JulieMarsonMP
. Following on from last night’s question to you, and now that you’ve had a chance to process, who do you stand with: your constituents who obeyed rules & made sacrifices or the PM responsible for ‘one rule for me, one rule for them’ culture at No 10?
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We respectfully ask our local MPs
@halfon4harlowMP
@KemiBadenoch
@OliverHealdUK
@JulieMarsonMP
: On what grounds do you disagree with him?
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Dear
@JulieMarsonMP
Have you sent a communication like this? If not, can you please find your voice and explain to your constituents who, like you, generally followed the rules, why you are prepared to continue to support a leadership lacking in honesty, integrity and decency?
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#Spurs
legends Ossie Ardiles, Pat Jennings and David Howells were in Sawbridgeworth to support charity
@Legend_on_Bench
, launched by
@1MickyHazard
and sister Michelle after her son Jay, who went to school in the town, died by suicide at 23
@SpursOfficial
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.
@AdrianRamsay
, co-leader of
@TheGreenParty
, said on a visit to
#Hertfordshire
"This pattern of big developments on the edge of towns which are not then followed by the infrastructure – water supply and school places – has to stop.”
#LocalElections2023
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Hi
@JulieMarsonMP
. You ok with spending £1,320 a month of your constituents’ money with the PR firm whose co-director was at this Tory HQ COVID party?
@HertStortford
@HertStortLabour
@HertAndStortLD
@EastHertsGreen
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Dear
@JulieMarsonMP
Do you stand by your words?
“Everyone, whoever they are, should obey the law, and anyone found to have broken the rules must face consequences.”
What do you believe the consequences should be for the PM?
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Hi
@JulieMarson
. We were told yesterday you were too busy to answer our specific questions, emailed to you on Monday, about
#dominiccummings
. We will try again today. In the meantime, a report appears in today’s Indie.
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"The people of Hertford and Stortford deserve a better MP. One who is local and represents their interests in Parliament. Someone who knows the constituency and participates in community life, rather than dropping in at PR events with party supporters."
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Dear
@JulieMarsonMP
On behalf of growing number of
#Hertford
&
#Stortford
families struggling with ongoing
#CostOfLivingCrisis
, will you be taking the £400 payment announced by
#RishiSunak
on Thursday for your family home 100 miles away in Kent AND for your residence in Sawbo?
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A day off for
@BSRUGBY
so joint head coach
@TomColeman10
and brother Jack headed into town for some family time but got hauled into helping to load a van with gear for 🇺🇦 refugees - and recruited 🇺🇦 Sergei for the front row at the same time 💙🤍💙💛
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Two days after we splashed on the dire numbers of people in need that Stortford food bank is managing, in a show of solidarity with her hard-pressed constituents,
@JulieMarsonMP
was visiting three food places and an actual bank in Hertford. Out of touch? 🤷♂️
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.
@Sammywints89
, who at 32 has just become a father, is retiring having been at Silver Leys since the age of 10 and having skippered the
@BSRUGBY
first XV since they were promoted to
@Natleague_rugby
1 in 2017
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On this issue, could you state your personal position for the benefit of your constituents please,
@JulieMarsonMP
? And it would be much appreciated if you could actually start to answer our legitimate and valid questions rather than rudely ignoring
@Indy_Sinead
courteous emails
I can’t believe we’re not offering asylum and waiving visas for those fleeing Ukraine.
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1/2 “But Stone Valley South invariably also serves up a surprise – delivered this year by Toyah.”
@SVFSouth
@toyahofficial
Pictures: Gerred Gilronan
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Check out our 16-page guide to Bishop’s Stortford rugby club ahead of Saturday’s start to the new
@national1_rugby
season
@BSRUGBY
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“I”? That’s funny,
@JulieMarsonMP
didn’t mention YOU in her spiked column claiming credit 🤷♂️ All aboard! Any more for the Train of Self-Congratulation!? This is a direct service to Fantasyland, not calling at Truthtown, Realityford or Factville 🚂
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.
@JulieMarsonMP
wants the PM to focus on cost-of-living crisis and levelling up the country. We asked her what she would be doing to serve her constituents on these issues. She did not answer. So we asked Lab, Lib Dem and Green, who happily replied.
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A plea to all our followers: Please RT our first tweet and spread the word - and the word is 'community'
#local
#news
#journalism
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So
@JulieMarsonMP
, re the
#downingstreetparty
and the video that has emerged and the contempt shown towards your constituents, what are your thoughts and feelings please - as a human being, regardless of your political affiliation?
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No 225 out today from the usual outlets and it’s been a trying week - a week spent trying to get our MP to address the major talking point
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“Appearances from original rude boy Neville Staple and his band,
@TheSelecter
with the immaculate
@paulineblackOBE
and Bruce Foxton’s
@FromtheJam1
, back after Russ Hastings’ heart scare last year, have become essential”
@SVFSouth
Pics: Gerred Gilronan
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,
@Indy_Sinead
on her highlight of the 3-day Stone Valley Festival South: “A ripple went around the arena as Toyah took to the stage and [husband Robert Fripp] was sitting at her side".
@SVFSouth
@toyahofficial
Pictures: Gerred Gilronan
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Dear
@JulieMarsonMP
@KemiBadenoch
@halfon4harlowMP
@OliverHealdUK
We haven’t had an answer to the question asked last night that thousands of your constituents are asking and deserve an answer to: where do you stand on
#BorisJohnson
continuing as your leader? For or against?
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So
@BSFCTheBlues
have clinched their first league title in 29 years and promotion to either the
@TheVanaramaNL
South or North in English football's sixth tier
@IsthmianLeague
#Blues
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The Independent Office for Police Conduct
@policeconduct
continues probe into royal cavalcade crash which killed Birchanger widow, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother Helen Holland
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Do you agree with your
#Conservative
colleague that
#BorisJohnson
must withdraw the false Savile slurs
@JulieMarsonMP
? Yes or no?
What happened to Keir Starmer tonight outside parliament is appalling. It is really important for our democracy & for his security that the false Savile slurs made against him are withdrawn in full.
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Unbeaten now in 9 as
@BSFCTheBlues
beat
@EnfieldTownFC
2-1 thanks to 14th goal of the season by
@JakeHCass
and a 96th-minute from
@jvrenee1
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We’re counting down to our 1st anniversary next week and we’re still feeling the love of the community
#WeAreOne
#Stortford
#printlives
@journalism_news
@pressgazette
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The 21-year-olds, who have been playing together for
@bishcricket
since their early teens, both scored their maiden centuries in an unbeaten 256-run partnership against
@HertfordCC
in the
@herts_league
@hertscricket
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Dear
@JulieMarsonMP
Following on from your fellow Kent-based MP’s comment here, what is the %age split in your postbag/inbox among your
#Hertford
&
#Stortford
constituents who say
#BorisJohnson
must go? Does he still enjoy your full support?
I hold to my view that we need a change of what Ms Gray has described as ‘the senior political leadership at the centre’.
It must be left to my Conservative colleagues to listen to their constituents and form their own conclusions as to necessary future action.
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Our £84,144-a-year Kent-based MP claims £1,320 a MONTH in expenses for her spending with a Hampshire PR firm with ties to Tory HQ in London for videos, podcast, newsletter and weekly "5 Highlights" – the latest of which includes "publishing my newsletter”
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Followers might be interested to know that there’s a parody account of our MP
I've had a word with Priti Patel to get MI5 and Special Branch to have a serious look at the traitors at the
@StortfordIndie
who tried to force me to condemn our Dear Leader in their seditious rag.
#borisforever
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No shock that
@JulieMarsonMP
was one of 211 (58.8%) Tory MPs who backed
#BorisJohnson
but the shock is the 148 (42.2%) parliamentary colleagues who opted for change
#NoConfidenceVote
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Can you explain your reasoning please
@JulieMarsonMP
given your vocal support for rare and precious chalk streams like the
#Stort
?
I'm grateful to neighbouring Tory Hertfordshire MP
@OliverHealdUK
who voted against dumping raw sewage in our
#Hertfordshire
#chalkrivers
I genuinely want to know why more 'chalk stream' Tory MP's didn't vote to stop it?
@Indy_Sinead
@StortfordIndie
@JulieMarsonMP
@sascampaigns
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Is Tory MP
@JulieMarsonMP
’s venomous attack on
@StortfordIndie
an everyday example of an MP behaving badly, or indicative of something more disturbing?
So now a Tory MP is attacking a local newspaper – how low can they go? |
My latest for
@IndyVoices
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For
@SHAKATAK_UK
original guitarist Keith Winter, the jazz funk band's gig at
@South_Mill_Arts
this weekend marks a remarkable recovery from a crippling nerve disorder that ruled him out of action for 30 years
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17-year-old Will Gilbank finished second in the 108km (67-mile) Ike Saul Memorial Race despite having to work his way from the back of the field
@MK1Scaffolding
@knightfrank
@PedalPotential
@highwaycycles
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You got a pat on the head in her first online monthly newsletter + the contents of her spiked column from two weeks ago: Hertford East trains and hare coursing. Don’t worry, we’ll continue to do our job diligently and keep her offline constituents in Stortford informed
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Last week
@JulieMarsonMP
had nothing to say to her constituents on levelling up locally. This week she has nothing to say on death threats to
@Keir_Starmer
in the wake of
#BorisJohnson
's Savile slur
@HertAndStortLD
@HertStortLabour
@HertStortford
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As recommended by BBC political correspondent…
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Dear
@JulieMarsonMP
@KemiBadenoch
@halfon4harlowMP
&
@OliverHealdUK
Does
#BorisJohnson
still enjoy your full support or is time for a new Big Dog?
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has joined Health Secretary Sajid Javid in resigning from Boris Johnson's Government
For more on this and other news visit
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In light of your leader’s admission at PMQs that he attended the
#BYOB
mass gathering in his own garden, does your state of being appalled apply to him
@JulieMarsonMP
?
#No10
#DowningStreetParties
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Opposition parties in Hertford & Stortford questioning £84,144-a-year
@JulieMarsonMP
about her use of the public purse after it emerged she's spent at least £7,260 on a PR firm in Hampshire
@HertStortLabour
@HertAndStortLD
@HertStortford
@EastHertsGreen
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A customer has donated £150 so that
#BishopsStortford
coffee shop Penny and Lou can offer 50 free lunches to children in need
#halfterm
#FSM
#FreeSchoolMeals
@MarcusRashford
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Go on then,
@JulieMarsonMP
, who did you vote for?
And if you continue to refuse to say, can you please explain to the nice people watching *why* they shouldn’t know who you want to be our next PM? Thanks
#ToryLeadershipContest
#ToryLeadershipRace
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LATEST Conservatives lose control of
@EastHerts
for first time since 1995. With 2 seats to be recounted at 1pm, Greens have 17 seats (+15), Con 16 (-23), Lib Dem 10 (+4), Lab 5 (+3). In
#Stortford
, the Tories have just 3 of the 14 seats
#easthertselection
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No 217 out today - please support your local paper: it helps to keep the community connected and helps us harness the spirit of Stortford’s community in events like our Indies awards 🙏
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Labour have won both seats in Stortford Central and the Liberal Democrats all three in Stortford North - the Conservatives are being obliterated in the town
#easthertselections
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No 81 out today... newspaper sales up 27% YOY since
@HertsEssexObs
folded, online audience growing monthly (124k UVs in March & 70k at halfway in April) and ad rev rising... what’s going right?
@journalism_news
@pressgazette
@guardian
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"He was awesome on Saturday and back to the
@JakeHCass
I had before," said
@BSFCTheBlues
boss Steve Smith...
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37 cyclists are riding from
@BSRUGBY
to
@ChinnorRugby
ahead of tomorrow's
@national1_rugby
clash in aid of winger
@ladlers
4yo daughter Aurora...
#OneClub
#OhStortWeAre
#WeAreOne
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It's now a club record 1,083 minutes - 12 consecutive games - since
@BSFCTheBlues
conceded a goal. Congrats to keeper
@gidds_99
and the defensive squad of
@ryanhenshaw
@billy_cracknell
@Sam5Robbins
@MarkHaines1
@jvrenee1
&
@archie3_
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That may be, but we’re old-fashioned and like to ask the MP a direct question in the hope of a direct answer, which we can then pass on to a wider audience, thereby fulfilling her obligation to engage as fully as possible with her constituents, especially those who are offline 👍
@StortfordIndie
@JulieMarsonMP
This is the government's view on this subject - they have their own proposals (which don't go far enough in most people's view) but they are hardly likely to support a Labour bill if they have their own plans
Chancellor Rishi Sunak on windfall taxes
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So how come those who have worked most closely with him suddenly get it while our MP
@JulieMarsonMP
doesn’t? Do her personal values align with those of
#BorisJohnson
? Her electorate have a right to know
@HertStortford
@HertStortLabour
@HertAndStortLD
@EastHertsGreen
A decent and responsible Government relies on honesty, integrity and mutual respect - it is a matter of profound personal regret that I must leave Government as I no longer believe those values are being upheld.
I have submitted my letter of resignation to the Prime Minister.
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Shock as
@JulieMarsonMP
fails to be automatically reselected by her
#Tory
constituency association’s executive committee
@HertStortford
@HertStortLabour
@HertAndStortLD
@EastHertsGreen
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No 293 out today - a souvenir edition to remember a momentous period in modern national and local history. You might even be in it!
Buy your copy from us direct, in person, cash only, at 7 Palmers Lane and we’ll give you a discount AND a chocolate from our box of delights 🙏
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.
@HertfordLibDem
: "MPs like
@JulieMarsonMP
who excuse
#BorisJohnson
's behaviour show their unfitness for office by displaying their lack of judgement. They are complicit in the debasement of our country."
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Ex
@BSRUGBY
president
@CattellRussell
and son
@TommyCattell
are taking on the Yorkshire 3 Peaks challenge in aid of
@GroveCottageBS
- and it’s not too late to join them…
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Thank you very much indeed to
@DorringtonsLtd
for the gift of our splendid 1st birthday cake. Next year they celebrate their centenary
#WeAreOne
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.
@Indy_Sinead
speaks to Stortford’s own
@BillyyPrice
- ex
@TBSHS
- about his path from the stages of
@South_Mill_Arts
&
@harlowplayhouse
to
#Hollyoaks
and the
@OfficialNTAs
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No 81 out today... newspaper sales up 27% YOY since
@HertsEssexObs
folded, online audience growing monthly (124k UVs in March & 70k at halfway in April), 6.2k Facebook followers and ad rev rising... what’s going right?
@mediaguardian
@GreensladeR
@IliffeMedia
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Thank you 🙏 Simon. It’s never tough being so close to
@DorringtonsLtd
😉
Just had a chance to finish reading this weeks
@StortfordIndie
- I read a lot of papers and I can honestly say for a small local paper this is bursting with news & information. That’s not the norm it’s the exception - Hats off to the editorial team in very tough times.
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1/2 On this day 6 years ago the first Stortford Indie was published 💙 Sincere thanks to everyone who has contributed to our own story, from writing to advertising to buying 🙏
We are a weekly reflection of life in your town. Please keep supporting your local paper - and please
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FYI Twitter… The office of
@JulieMarsonMP
complained to the editorial director of our publisher
@IliffeMedia
about our news Ed
@indy_Sinead
asking questions that required “time-consuming answers” 🙄 - an issue with which the previous MP had no issue 🤷♂️
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Tune in, folks, or catch it on catch-up
So I’ve been invited onto
@TimesRadio
tomorrow to talk with
@AasmahMir
&
@StigAbell
about why I refused to run our MP’s column in last week’s
@StortfordIndie
Catch it at around 8.20 I’m told
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@LongshanksE10
@narrowboatlucy
@wil_dur
@JonnElledge
@Indy_Sinead
Just doing our job, sir - but thank you
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Great result.
@BSRUGBY
leapfrog Plymouth
@AlbionRFC
and
@cinderfordrfc
to climb two places to fifth in
@national1_rugby
and are on course for the highest finish in their history in rugby union's league pyramid
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1/4 It’s our 300th edition today! Yay!
It was a big deal in October 2017 to launch a printed paper in the digital age - and since then we’ve had significant challenges in the form of Covid and the cost-of-living crisis. But we’re still here.
It’s not easy...
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1/2 Dear
@JulieMarsonMP
@KemiBadenoch
@halfon4harlowMP
@OliverHealdUK
In light of the crushing by-election defeat by the
#LibDems
in
#TivertonandHoniton
and the
#LabourGain
in
#Wakefield
- in the wake of 41% of your fellow
#Tory
MPs voting that they had no confidence in
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Two Bishop’s Stortford schools -
@BSCollege
and
@TBSHS
- have been named among the UK’s best schools for cricket
@TheCricketerMag
@TheCricketer100
@TBSHSSPORT
@TBSHS6thForm
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Inaugural
@castleparkrun
- or are they all rushing to reserve their copies of the 1st
@StortfordIndie
? Picture spread in Oct 4 launch issue
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What a day!
@BSFCTheBlues
recorded their biggest
@IsthmianLeague
win in 27 years thrashing
@LeatherheadFC
7-0 thanks to
@JakeHCass
' second hat trick in 5 games plus goals from
@ArchieJones23
Frankie Merrifield, Ryan Charles &
@Ben_Marlow10
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Villagers in the Hallingburys, Hatfield Heath and Hatfield Broad Oak are waking up to news that they have a Harlow MP: Chris Vince, the man who came second to Julie Marson in Hertford and Stortford four-and-a-half years ago
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🎼 The first pothole’s the deepest… BABY I KNOW” 🎼
@rodstewart
dons
@CelticFC
trainers and hi-vis jacket to fix the potholes near his mansion
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What a week it’s been
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Good morning, good people. We have some news about us - it’s all good ☺️ More details later but in the meantime…
#movinghome
#MovingDay
#SupportYourLocalPaper
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