Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Other sources - Part 2

Two lead stories on the Northumberland Gazette website at 0830 this morning... where you now have to subscribe £5 a month for access to "premium content".

1: An Alnwick butcher's shop has won a double whammy of awards in just two weeks. R Turnbull and Sons was named North of England Butcher's Shop of the Year by the Meat Trades Journal.

(Unsurprisingly, that information is also available at Meat Info Online, the website of the Meat Trades Journal).

It follows hot on the heels of a product evaluation hat-trick when father and son Mark and John Turnbull won the top-rated diamond award, the Bri...

(See what they've done there, teasing that premium content by stopping half way through a word ? However a Google Search for "R Turnbull butcher diamond" leads to the Alnwick Journal.live site, where the diamond award was revealed, free, on November 13th)

2: Second lead - link to a photo slideshow - festive fun as Alnwick Christmas lights are switched on.

(At first go, this is harder to find free. The lights were switched on November 20, but the excellent Alnwick Christmas Lights site hasn't yet updated its gallery. The lights are pretty much the same every year, so there's a reasonable set on Flickr. There's also a Facebook page, but it looks like a preview. I'll keep looking and let you know how it goes... )

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