Why geography may well become history as the Mums Army marches on without our Shirley
General, Journalism | (8)
It was one of those pub stories that you never quite believed; half of me suspected that it was one of those tall tales that would be told to cub reporters, as a matter of course.
But anyway, when I first started my wood-staining career on the illustrious organ called the Wiltshire Gazette & Herald the story was that when it came to installing a sparkling new press beneath the Evening Adver' building in Swindon Old Town, someone was despatched to Germany to bag themselves the business print press-wise.
The joke was that when it finally arrived it emerged that this new ...