TO SAY the last week has been a bit of a whirl would be a huge understatement.
As we journalists are known more for sensationalising stories than playing them down, I shall go the other way and say it's been the busiest working week for anyone, ever.
There's one reason for this I can tell you about, and one I can't because it's a secret. Hee.
The first is Ed Stilliard.
My reporter friend and colleague from the Bedworth Echo was tootling home on his Vespa last Wednesday when he collided with a car at traffic lights in Leicester.
Note that I said "collided with". We can't say one person hit another, or that they crashed. It's all to do with apportioning blame, something we're not in a position to do.
It always sounds weird when you have to say a pedestrian collided with a car, as if they have hurled themselves at the vehicle from the side of the road.
But, sadly, those are the rules we have to adhere to. There's your journalism 101 lesson for today.
Anyhow, young Ed managed to sustain two broken legs and will now be a resident of Leicester Royal Infirmary for the foreseeable future.
It's one hell of a way of getting out of doing a shorthand exam, but desperate times and all that.
As the Tribune is a one-woman band, and the Echo a one-man one, any absence really hits us hard, particularly as we also share stories between publications.
Luckily, though, we work from the office of The Hinckley Times, so I have been able to call on reporters for help.
Getting much time out of former Echo reporter Sam Dimmer, now a high-flyer on the Times with more work than he can wave a ballpoint pen at, is like trying to book the Arctic Monkeys for the Civic Hall.
But he throws me some crumbs and by golly they're appreciated. Rachel Parrish, former Nuneaton Evening Telegraph reporter, has been invaluable and everyone else is playing a part.
Which is why I have felt the need to swan off as of Wednesday on a secret mission.
It's a cunning plan, you see. I make everyone think I'm desperate, they do all the work, and then I take time off.
Brilliant!
The Tribune Office
...hard at work as always
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