A national production level broadsheet newspaper is being set up by a number of members of a Friends Group as part of their campaign to save Pevensey Bay Library.—Bay Life, 30 September 2017
Local friends group reveals plans to produce broadsheet newspaper to support their campaign to save local library
The four page broadsheet newspaper, which is to be printed by the Trinity Mirror Group in Watford on the same presses as the new tabloid Guardian, is to be delivered to every household in Pevensey Bay, free of charge.
Margaret Martin, one of the instrumental members of the Friends group, who is spearheading the campaign to keep the library open, has explained that she sees the involvement of local business in the form of sponsorship of the newspaper with advertising, as one of the key elements to the project and a way of ‘raising awareness’ .
The newspaper will profile articles about latest details of the local campaign, local news about the consultation exercise underway, together with news about library campaigns across the country.
Twenty authors of national standing are to be invited to write a special message in the form of a ‘back of a postcard’ note with a message on the front that says “wish you were here, the local library is wonderful”.
Already the project has attracted attention with a message from author Peter James, the international best-selling British writer of crime fiction. who was born in Brighton
Helen Dennis, author of the ‘Secret Breakers’ Series & ‘River of Ink’ has also expressed interest in being involved in the broadsheet newspaper by giving an interview.
Margaret Martin said (30 September), “Helen Dennis has contacted me and agreed an interview”.
A member of the production team employed to put the newspaper together said, “we can see that the whole question of the consultation exercise and the campaign to save Pevensey Bay Library is about getting the message across to local people about the fundamental need to save the library.
“Usually people write to the local newspaper and hope to see a paragraph from their media release posted.
“This way the local print news will come to them about the library, it is not every day that you get a four page national production broadsheet through your door, free of charge, so we hope to make a bit of a splash.
“We feel somewhat inspired by the message that Margaret Martin delivers about the need to save the local library and the people that we have met in Pevensey Bay that have been inspired to save the library, which as far as we can tell, is reaching a groundswell.
“The message that the Friends of Pevensey Bay library is delivering really does seem to resonate with local people.
“We are delighted to have been invited to deliver this broadsheet newspaper to a local audience.
“Maybe we will have helped a little by creating interest and promoting the message in print about the need to save the local library, as Margaret Martin says that is fit for the 21st century”.
