“Kibbutz on sea” - A threat or a promise?
30 August 2007
We have a local weekly newspaper in this part of west Wales called the “Tivyside Advertiser” which claims to be “The Voice of the Community for 141 years“. If you want to know who has been banned from driving, or hurt in a drunken brawl, or had a set of spanners nicked from their garage, read the Tivyside.
I have no problem with this, after all, it’s what a local paper is for - reporting local issues. In a relatively low crime area, small incidents are news. You either hear of these happenings over a pint in the local, or in a street corner conversation, or read them in the Tivyside.
Occasionally however the Tivyside displays poor editorial judgement by giving undue prominence to a story in a way which can leave a nasty taste in the mouth.
Take the Tivyside dated August 21st 2007, It’s headline reads “Kibbutz on sea”. The story is about the owner of Cardigan Island Coastal Farm Park in the county of Ceredigion, who is in a long running dispute with Ceredigion County Council over their plan to create a 95km coastal path (similar to the highly successful one in the adjacent county of Pembrokeshire) which will pass through his land. The owner lost an appeal to the The Welsh Assembly Government against the plan earlier in 2007, but he continues to fight on. He is reported as vowing to take the case as far as the UK High Court and the European Court in Strasbourg.
Continue reading “Kibbutz on sea” - A threat or a promise?
↑ Back to top ↑
