[NUJ Bristol] Totnes anti-Tindle newspaper

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Spoof newspaper in protest at editorial stance on Gulf war 

By Holdthefrontpage Staff 

http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/news/2003/04apr/030424war.shtml

Peace protesters in south Devon have published a spoof newspaper in
response to a local publisher's decision not to run anti-war stories in his
papers during the Gulf conflict. 

Tindle Newspapers, which publishes the Totnes Times, decided at the start
of the conflict that nothing that attacked the troops or the decision to go
to war would be printed. 

Some of the papers reproduced a memo from the proprietor, Sir Ray Tindle,
explaining his decision. 

Later, Totnes Peace Group members met Totnes Times editor, Gina Coles, and
South Hams Newspapers general manager, Jackie Smith about the ban - and a
story about a silent walk for peace was subsequently printed. 

Members of the Peace Group have now printed a spoof of the Totnes Times and
their Troubled Times has been distributed in Totnes and other areas where
the ban is in place. Some 5,000 have been published. 

A copy was delivered to the newspaper's office in Totnes, and a petition
signed by more than 600 locals was also handed over, to say how they would
boycott the paper until the policy was altered. 

A Peace Group spokesperson said: "Campaigners will demand that South Hams
Newspapers issue a formal statement that no further censorship will occur
in the Totnes Times, or their other titles." 

Tindle publications include the Monmouthshire Beacon, Cornish Times, Totnes
Times, Ivybridge, South Brent & South Hams Gazette, Kingsbridge, Salcombe &
South Hams Gazette, Mid Cornwall Advertiser, Mid Devon Advertiser, North
Cornwall Advertiser, County Echo, Dartmouth Chronicle, Alton Herald, Biggin
Hill News, Bordon Herald, Cambrian News, Farnham Herald, Haslemere Herald,
Petersfield Herald, Pulman's Weekly News, Tavistock Times, Tenby Observer,
The Exmoor Visitor, The Devon Heartland Visitor and The North Devon Visitor.

http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/news/2003/04apr/030424war.shtml



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