Marilyn wrote: ↑26 Nov 2017, 05:46
They are final year high school students who have finished their exams. They don't have exam results yet. They have now left school (depending on results of course as some may need to repeat!). So the town is full of kids all mooching about trying to look individual and cool. ( I heard a figure of 8000 but I can't believe there would be that many or we would be standing shoulder to shoulder!).
Do you mean they are kids from other towns converging on your town? Why do they pick your town? Perhaps you should should encourage 8000 oldies to descend on your town at the same time - that would soon deter the kids!
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The BBC web site has an article about residents of Grenfell Tower in London, the one that burned down, and it discusses why their concerns weren't listened too. Towards the end it says how there used to be a local newspaper that did that job. The Kensington and Chelsea Chronicle ran front page stories about Grenfell residents' concerns regarding the possible presence of asbestos on the site of the new school and about the power surges but the paper was closed down and their articles disappeared from the web. "The Kensington and Chelsea Chronicle was incorporated into a website that reports on 29 west London districts. Horrox's replacement was expected to report on three boroughs - Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster and Hammersmith and Fulham - while based in Surrey, an hour's drive away. Some residents of the borough might have been under the mistaken impression that they did have a local newspaper. In 2015 a free paper, The Kensington and Chelsea News, was established to fill the gap left by the closing of the Chronicle. But when I tracked down its reporter he explained that he was the sole reporter working on the paper, and on two other local newspapers - his salary was £500 a week and he did almost all his reporting from home in Dorset, 150 miles away. He made it to the borough only twice in two-and-a-half years, and the one story he ever published about Grenfell was from a council press release about the installation of the new cladding."
Edward Daffarn, a resident, says: "We'd been blogging for three or four years and you go back over that time there's a lot of abusive behaviour evidenced forensically about what was happening to our community, but it wasn't sexy so it never got picked up." The BBC article says, "For Edward, what was going on at Grenfell wasn't just a local story, but a national one. A story about invisible people in a society that cared more about celebrity and wealth than its most vulnerable residents. Close to tears, he admonishes the nation's journalists. "If you look back now our whole community of North Kensington, the policy that the local authority was taking every public space and privatising it, that that could be missed by the BBC, by Channel Four, by these wider news agencies... The question should be for you, why did you miss it? "Why aren't our lives important enough for you?"
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