Editorial
| Jul 2010 We’re all going on a.... After a few false starts it appears that the summer has arrived at last and thoughts of days out in the UK now make sense. At least we we’ll be using the umbrella to keep sunshine off, not rain! Following on from the recent budget cuts perhaps holidays at home (i.e. the UK, if not literally ’at home’) will be in vogue once more. So how many of us are still planning to hit the Spanish beaches and half-built hotels once again? Over-hyped, over-rated, over the top? Even the most football agnostic can’t fail to notice the seemingly national obsession with the 2010 world cup, if nothing else we see the ’George’ flying everywhere we look. Shame perhaps that the same national fervour doesn’t appear every 23 April - or does football have some ’special dispensation’ to make flying the flag no longer an affront to other nationalities in the UK (a common reason for not being allowed to do it)? In any case, since BN goes to press before the fateful third match for the England team perhaps all those flags will have had a date with a bonfire and life will be back to normal again. However spare a thought for the poor flag, it’s not its fault so perhaps keep it safe until April next year when it would be a welcome sight once again. Oh yes we will! Publish Burton News in August that is, and have done for quite a few years now... but still get asked so worth mentioning it here (hope springs eternal... etc...) Oh no we won’t! Refuse notices for village events, or reports and photographs from them that is. So if you are holding an event then please tell us beforehand then tell us how it went afterwards. It’s free, and not much in life comes at no cost these days. Oh yes we will! Continue to bring you BN as long as we are able to do so - and that all depends on your generous contributions (things to print as well as money). |
