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Cook's Corner
Your fortnightly recipe to
tantalise your taste buds |
Millionaires Shortbred |
Base ingredients.
150g (5oz) plain flour.
50g (2oz) caster sugar.
100g (4oz) butter.
Caramel.
100g (4oz) sugar.
100g (4oz) butter.
2 tablespoons syrup.
Small tin condensed milk.
Topping. 8oz cooking chocolate.
Mix base ingredients together and press into a very lightly greased swiss roll tin.
Bake 180ºc 350ºf gas 3 for 15/20 minutes , allow to cool.
Melt caramel ingredients together in a large saucepan, bring to the boil and simmer for
10-15 minutes until dark brown stirring continuously.
Pour over base and cool.
Melt chocolate and pour over top, cut into squares when cold. |
| Response
to Readers Letter on Page 4 |
I have no problem at all in
both printing your letter in full and responding to the queries in it. I will, in this
article tell you who we are and I will answer honestly the points you have raised, in the
order they were posed.
Norfolka2z has been established in Sheringham for three years, both Bob and myself are
local people. I personally lived outside of Norfolk for some time but regularly returned
to visit family in Sheringham and kept abreast of what was happening in the town. From the
beginning we have been involved in advertising and marketing. We began our Community Web
Site two and a half years ago, and as we promised the sponsors at the time, we only have
enough advertisers to cover the costs of running it. The whole idea of the site is to
promote Sheringham and we have 2 - 3,000 visitors to it each month.
Why do we feel that Sheringham needs a cloned version of the Sheringham Independent?
We don't. Several people approached us in 2001, who asked if we had ever thought of
developing a local paper that could have a different outlook to the current one and cover
various topics from an alternative standpoint.
After several months of deliberation, asking questions around town and looking at other
local town's papers we decided that it was a viable idea. As this type of project was new
to us, we approached Ineke, whom we knew from her days at the Independent and asked for
her help and advice. She had left the Independent for various reasons including poor
health way back in January so was no longer involved with them in any way and luckily for
us she was happy to help us to get established. Her help and advice has been invaluable,
she continues to help us out voluntarily at her surgeries on a Monday at the Little
Theatre. Since starting out we have also been lucky in receiving voluntary help from Terry
& Jacky, who help us to type up letters and articles and will also be putting each
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few weeks. As to being a clone of the Sheringham Independent, We are no more a clone than
the Nationals like The Sun, Star and Mirror, apart from the size of the paper, most of the
content within it is very different. We are trying to appeal to all age ranges, from the
very young to the very old. We have asked all organisations not to send us copy if it is
going into the Sheringham Independent, the people of Sheringham do not need to read the
same information twice, but inevitably there will be some occasions where repeat articles
will happen. |
How many letters are genuine? |
All letters that have 'Name & Address Supplied' at the bottom are from genuine people,
who do not wish to have their names published, but are happy for us to give it out to
anyone who enquires. 'Name withheld' are from people who do not wish their names to be
given out. We will not publish letters, which we receive that do not have a name on them,
but if the writer requests that we keep their name out of the paper we will do so. For
this we make no excuses.
In our first couple of issues there were letters from people who were aware that
a new paper was being started. You would be surprised how many people want to write a
letter but cannot put their words onto paper. Stephen, a young man who is with us two days
a week until he leaves school goes out with a Dictaphone and takes down their stories or
letters, comes back to the office and types them up, then returns to the person for their
signature. We had been asking local business to advertise so word of a new paper got
around, in this town, as you know, the grapevine works at the speed of light.
Our name or nothing endorses articles written by the staff of the paper, we do not write
letters. Our Hear'Say' column is written by a local businessperson under the pseudonym of
'Vic' and a dog does not write Dougal's column, but yes you guessed one of the staff. If
we hear of something going on in town, we are not going to wait for someone to write us a
letter, we are going to investigate and print it ourselves. |
How are both papers going to
survive? |
If the examples of Cromer, Holt and Fakenham are anything to go by, then the survival of
two papers should not be an issue. We have not produced @ Sheringham with any intention of
trying to close down The Sheringham Independent as has been suggested, indeed there is no
reason why this should happen.
Competition is healthy, it ensures better quality and it gives local businesses a choice
of affordable advertising. Let's face it, if Sheringham can sustain more than one Butcher,
Baker, Builder, Electrical Shop, Travel Agent, Newsagent, Flower Shop, Greengrocer, Pub,
Club, etc then it can also cope with more than one paper! As we are an established
company, our paper has less overheads that have to be covered by advertisers, therefore we
will be able to ensure that there is always enough room for letters, news and reports.
(Continued on page 8) |
The Arthritis Care
Information worker will be holding an Information Drop-in at the Health Centre, Sheringham
on Wednesday 29th January from 9.30 - 11.30am
The purpose of the Information drop-in is to provide information, help and support for
people with arthritis of all ages, their families and carers and anyone else involved in
supporting people with arthritis.
If you would like further details about the
Arthritis Care Information Drop-in, please contact Jack on 01263 824 478 |
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