By David Simister, Reporter
CONTRARY to what you may have heard, we at the Weekly News haven't lost any of our staff; in fact we gained one this week. Unfortunately he's plastic, less than a foot tall and rather than helping with the reporting his sole job seems to be singing We Wish You A Merry Christmas in increasingly sick-sounding tones. As our resident ambassador for festive frolics he's doing a sterling job... at winding the rest of us up.
Yet it seems even our Santa tribute act isn't the only worrying bit of tat that's gracing streets from Kinmel Bay to Conwy this month. One reader was so incensed by the steel-fencing finishing off the Christmas trees in Abergele he actually wrote to us, describing them as having "all the charm of a crime scene".
Don't get me wrong, I love Christmas, especially as it gives me something other than the credit crunch to talk to people about. In fact I've actually embraced Christmas so much that I'm subtly attempting to get the C-word into almost every article I write (and I've managed it four times in this one already!).
It's just that, at a time of year when things are supposed to be jolly we shouldn't be decorating the county with cold, grey fencing and yard upon yard of red tape (in both senses). I'm sure some of you will point out the security reasons but if it's really that bad, why not be more seasonal and surround each tree with a herd of angry reindeer?
I did ask our newest colleague for his thoughts on this but he wouldn't comment. He was too busy singing about Christmas instead...
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