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Claire is a trainee reporter, who moved to Walthamstow from the Grim North and joined the Waltham Forest Guardian in May 2008. She was a student at UCL and went home to train at the Press Association Training Centre in Newcastle, but felt London Calling and came back. This blog chronicles her trials and triumphs as a "newbie in the newsroom". She likes writing, arguing, politics, religion, weird music and Chinese food. She is uncomfortable writing about herself in the third person.
Posted at 1:01pm Thursday 20th November 2008
From Leytonstone to Warsaw and back, via the local graveyard
Apparently, we could be stacking our dead one on top of the other in a matter of decades.
Posted at 5:38pm Wednesday 12th November 2008
That Wednesday feeling
It's that time of the week again - that time when any vague semblance of control over one's sanity goes right out the newsroom window.
Posted at 3:27pm Wednesday 5th November 2008
Posted at 3:53pm Tuesday 28th October 2008
Heavens to Betsy, it's an early blog!
As I'm going on holiday from tomorrow for the rest of the week and would, of course, never deprive the blogfan(s) of an entry, the usual weekly round-up of WFG frolics has been brought forward to today.
Posted at 4:48pm Wednesday 22nd October 2008
Champagne soirees and fond farewells
If there's one thing I've learned, after attending a private viewing of an art exhibition last night, it's that free champagne is a dangerous thing.
Posted at 5:34pm Wednesday 15th October 2008
Posted at 3:34pm Wednesday 8th October 2008
Venturing out into the (not so) big, bad world
I've been out a-meeting and a-greeting in the last few days, which is unusual.
Posted at 5:36pm Wednesday 1st October 2008
Be careful what you say around reporters...
My colleagues have failed to learn that if they say something is "definitely not for the blog", I take that to mean "definitely for the blog".
Posted at 12:54pm Wednesday 24th September 2008
Goldfish: the surprisingly charismatic aquatic creature
If I listed all the snippets of conversation FCR (that's Fearless Chief Reporter, for those of you who have forgotten) and my other colleagues have told me are "not for the blog", I would probably have a fairly comprehensive indictment of the level of (in)sanity in this office.
Posted at 4:59pm Wednesday 17th September 2008
There comes a time in every blogger's life when a little hyperbole is called for
It seems the borough's residents are destined to be buried under a mountain of uncollected rubbish, kicking and screaming beneath the cumulative filth - or something equally hyperbolic.
Posted at 1:47pm Wednesday 10th September 2008
Well, at least the world hasn't ended...
The title, if anyone is unsure, is a reference to the huge experiment going on underground on the Franco-Swiss border at this very moment, using the Large Hadron Collider, which may or may not cause a black hole that will swallow the earth. But on to less apocalyptic things.
Posted at 5:48pm Wednesday 3rd September 2008
Frustration, contemplation and end of probation
The news week begins again and so far I've found myself thwarted at almost every turn.
Posted at 5:56pm Wednesday 27th August 2008
Knife culture claims another life
Another young man has been stabbed to death in Walthamstow.
Posted at 5:07pm Thursday 21st August 2008
Dogs, and fires, and death! Oh my!
A fire, an assault, the closure of the Stow and an inquest - it's been a busy couple of days in Waltham Forest.
Posted at 10:32am Thursday 14th August 2008
Posted at 2:58pm Wednesday 6th August 2008
Posted at 9:24am Friday 1st August 2008
We all go a little mad sometimes...
It seems the saga of credit card fraud in Chingford is going to be a long one.
Posted at 5:44pm Wednesday 23rd July 2008
Posted at 12:30pm Thursday 17th July 2008
Riding the journalistic rollercoaster...
This week has been a bit of a rollercoaster ride.
Posted at 11:40am Thursday 10th July 2008
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