Just taken another look at the online Courier and it has been changed , I do hope the printed version is correct.

Surely though Johnson Press could have recruited someone competent to do the job sufficiently, there are numerous local paper sites they run and in the past have all been pretty decent.

Courier Website hasnt been updated much at all this week, I wonder if the Council have secretly taken over

What makes me laugh is I do buy a copy of the Courier if I am out and about and they have emblazoned on their letters page a statment saying "Read more letters online every day " but if you do try to read the letters page online they have not been changed for 2 or 3 WEEKS.If they don`t have the staff to change the web site letters page then don`t advertise it in the Courier .

A guess is that they are cost cutting and maybe got rid of whoever was in charge of updating the website. Newspapers are struggling badly and I doubt having almost all the content from the paper online has helped their sales.

I think that Johnson Press are planning to charge for internet access if so then the service will have to improve. Also what irritates me is when they put hyphens in words like Calder-dale and Hali-fax

Oldham Chronicle had the right idea by waiting til early afternoon before putting any articles online, whereas the courier I can read the main storys before I even get out of bed most days.

I think nationally, the days of daily local newspapers are numbered, In most city centres now the papers are free but bulked up with adverts.

I disagree. I still believe local people want to read about local news - especially the sport pages which can offer a different perspective to the official club slant on news - but they just need to adapt to the times. There is still a reasonably large audience who will buy the newspaper because they either dont have the internet or rarely have access to the web.

I would happily subscribe to a pay-to-view Courier website if realistically priced. 10p a day or something similar.

at one point it used to be the evening courier deliverd to the local shops about 2 pm, but went to my local shop (chatters) at 8.30 this morning and quess what, todays courier was there on the counter, no wonder its a day behind,that paper as gone down hill since it moved over to leeds

Its now printed at 2am I think.

10p a day would be ok, 11p pushing it a bit with some of the drivel written on there

Swinton vs FC Halifax Town says it all. mustve been a female in charge.

John Furbisher moved to their Sheffield newspaper at short notice I believe, as it's Editor died.

My condolences to the family of the guy, but that aside, John Furbisher surely didn't handle every single thing the Courier did - Reporting, Proof Reading, Printing, Distribution and Website Updates!

It's shocking some days.

Unbelievable! Just read the first paragraph of this article. I'd be embarrassed if I were the Reporter. www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/Re ... 6222448.jp

Unbelievable! Just read the first paragraph of this article. I'd be embarrassed if I were the Reporter. www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/Re ... 6222448.jp

Theres never been a match report on the fav game online has there on the worrier website, or did I miss it?

They've stopped showing the videos of the previous games tries also it would seem.

We have erased it from history. If we really believe, perhaps it never happened.

lol no that was your extra stength lager that did that.

Its maybe because they have made 10 people redundant recently there is nobody to do it.
Funny how they publicise everybody elses bad news and put the boot in to all things especially the Council yet make no mention of them increasing the local unemployment rate.
Journos, don't like em one bit.

I like Journos, Dave Fletcher and James Roberts are OK blokes who know their stuff, but you're spot on about the publicizing of all bad news bar their own.

I remember they quietly sold the shut down of the print room at the Courier - which was a massive blow to Calderdale - as a positive step in improving 'your' Courier in a small corner of page 2, whereas any other company closing a plant down in the area would be front page news.

They also consistently look for the negative. I think it's because either the young journos are trying to make a name for themselves; not enough happens in Calderdale to actually justify our own paper (Castleford and similar places tend to have local weeklies), or they just think everyone wants to read things 'tabloid' sensationalist style.

Either way it's a great shame as they have been marvelous for the Club in the last 25 years, but that was down to the people who ran it and they are now gone.

Quote ="Yob"Unbelievable! Just read the first paragraph of this article. I'd be embarrassed if I were the Reporter. www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/Re ... 6222448.jp'" Theres at least 3 mistakes in that article, and thats before looking at the grammar.

Quote ="Yob"Unbelievable! Just read the first paragraph of this article. I'd be embarrassed if I were the Reporter. www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/Re ... 6222448.jp'" Theres at least 3 mistakes in that article, and thats before looking at the grammar.

just been reading about the town game last night, this is what it said Will Aspin be listening out for Lancaster's progress against Colwyn Bay? "You prepare your own team to get a result and if it going well the scores will filter through, " he said. "We are set up to expect that Lancaster are going to win." A blistering performance from Rafael Nadal saw the five-time defending champion sweep into the quarter-finals of the Monte Carlo Masters, brushing aside Michael Berrer in straight sets. www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/local/O ... 6231973.jp when did nadal start playing for town,

just been reading about the town game last night, this is what it said Will Aspin be listening out for Lancaster's progress against Colwyn Bay? "You prepare your own team to get a result and if it going well the scores will filter through, " he said. "We are set up to expect that Lancaster are going to win." A blistering performance from Rafael Nadal saw the five-time defending champion sweep into the quarter-finals of the Monte Carlo Masters, brushing aside Michael Berrer in straight sets. www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/local/O ... 6231973.jp when did nadal start playing for town,

A couple of weeks ago. It was in the Courier

He has a cracking volley on him.

His game really suited the pitch a couple of months ago, hopefully it will continue on grass.

FTW!

IMHO the Worrier has not been the same since they sacked Phil Lyon and replaced him with that halfwit Northern Nigel Askam who later left to cover the dulls for the T&A, allthough James Roberts is not bad.