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The Informer

Any one else not receiving this lately?We used to have a very nice old gent who used to come out in all weathers to deliver the paper.He used to wheel a shopping trolley around and would come out in all weathers.I offered him a cup of tea a couple of times because he looked frozen and I offered him an umbrella when it was raining but he always declined.Since he has not been on the scene the deliveries have dropped off.I fear the worst has happened to him as he looked quite elderly.

Keith Iddon ● 6312d8 Comments

Looks Familiar Sarah.Ive had enough of Going Down Stairs and Cleaning up Newspaper Don't forget i am on a Busy Rd, it takes 1 sheet off paper to hit the windscreen of a passing car and you have a nasty accident.Ive Reported it to The Chronicle and they Didn't even reply Back, mind you i am not surprised they are Dumped downstairs and not threw the Doors as its 2 young kids that Deliver them.

Simon Anderson ● 6309d

Keith.  For many years piles of free newspapers were dumped under bushes near to Syon Lane station - the allotments and Quaker Lane were quite popular dumping areas.  Since the recycling banks – and it may be a coincidence - these piles of papers have gone.Each time I visited the paper banks at Homebase – I think it was either a Thursday or Friday – I had to wade through the plastic strips which go around bundles of newspapers which had been cut off and left strewn on the ground.  Often when I looked in the bank there would be huge piles of leaflets and free papers.  It looked as if the plastic strips had been cut away from the bundles as they are too big to post through without dividing them up.  I did think they could have placed the ‘strips’ in the plastic recycling bin which is beside the paper banks.On the occasion I took the photograph, the paper inside the container was high enough to get a photo of the newspapers inside and the headline on the Informer was a bit of luck.  I e-mailed the information and photograph in to the Informer and had no reply.  I also spoke to LBH’s waste people who said they were fully aware of the dumping of free newspapers and leaflets inside containers but short of installing a camera there was nothing they could do. I suppose we should consider it positively and be pleased they are not tucked under bushes any longer and that they contribute towards the Boroughs recycling targets?  It is a shame that the local newspapers are failing though.

Sarah Felstead ● 6310d

Bulk copies of the Informer are delivered to Brentford Library and are generally found in the lobby. Having said that - there is the occasional week when they don't deliver.

Gillian Hoare ● 6311d

I've not seen the Informer for ages. The Ealing Times I don't believe is published any more.  I found a whole lot dumped in my dustbin undelivered some time ago.  They must all have got most of their advertising revenue from estate agents.

Philippa Bond ● 6311d

I've not had The Informer (or any other free papers) delivered to our part of north Brentford for two years or more. I had assumed they had ceased publication.Mick

Mick Brent ● 6311d

The point being what,Sarah?

Keith Iddon ● 6312d

Sarah Felstead ● 6312d

Ours Get Dumped Downstairs by the Front Door to our Flats and Left there, the Boy doesn't even come in to the Block and Deliver them in the Letter Boxes which annoys me as not everyone uses the front Door.I reported it to The Informer 2wks ago but its still happening.

Simon Anderson ● 6312d