Sir Ray Tindle is the great old man of local newspapers, 68 years in the business and feted on his 90th birthday at a big industry Savoy lunch last week. He told many fine old jokes to uproarious acclaim: but if you want to savour the real Tindle, hear him expressing eternal faith in the kind of newspapers he knows and loves – ones that close to the ground, close to the street where you live. Crisis? What crisis?
“Some of our own companies in the Tindle newspaper group have already tackled it by building even more on local revenue to replace lost national revenue – and some local papers are up on last year despite the loss of national revenue. The Leigh Times is up £3,500 by week 31, Biggin Hill News is up by £5,000, the Glamorgan Gem is up by £23,000 and Forester Newspapers by well over £50,000.”
Absolutely archetypal Tindle: even at 90, all is well with the world if the Glamorgan Gem is still glittering.
