By Steve Stratford, Deputy Editor
NEWS travels fast! An exclusive story by our chief reporter Richard Evans which appeared in last Thursday's paper was picked up by at least two Sunday papers at the weekend, both articles quoting the North Wales Weekly News as the source.
It was the amusing story about Chief Contsable Richard Brunstrom denying to our reporter that he was due to retire at the end of 2009, despite the police chief telling the BBC in an interview last month that he would do so.
And luckily we got Mr Brunstrom's comments on tape so there could be no argument he never said it. In fact, you can hear him say it in a special video we have put together in our online videos section.
It's far from unusual for national newspapers (or TV and radio, come to that) to pick up on stories in the Weekly News. Indeed many news organisations trawl the regional papers on a regular basis for stories they can beef up and use again. And it's very often something to do with our controversial chief constable that gets picked up, especially by those tabloids that seem to have it in for him.
But it's always gratifying for the Weekly News to get a name-check in a version of the story that will be read by many more people across the UK, and the world online. If you missed the story, it's on page 6 of our August 28th edition, or, as I say, on the website in story and video form.
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