Serving our readers

Our job is to report change in the local community, which theCheddar Valley Gazette has done since 1954.

We have also seen significant change in the newspaper itself. Iwas reminded of this by a cutting from April 1986 which told thatthe paper was switching from the larger broadsheet size to the"neater, handier and more popular" tabloid format now used by almostall local papers and most of the nationals.

The pages would be smaller but there would be more of them, andby the time I joined in 1997 the pagination was usually 72 a weekwith three pages devoted to purely Cheddar Valley news.

Nowadays 112 pages is normal with nine pages devoted to …