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10:00am on Saturday, 22nd August, 2020:

ESSEX County Standard

Weird

Guilty though I may feel at picking on the Essex County Standard every so often, recently it seems to be on something of a roll.

This week, for example, it has an article on the Covid-19 infection rate in Colchester. There's nothing wrong with the content, which is quite informative, but for some reason every sentence is a paragraph and every paragraph starts with a word in capital letters.



Other articles begin with a word in capital letters, but then continue as normal. Alone among this week's article, this one has the first-paragraph format applied throughout.

There are other weirdnesses, too. The front-page headline continues a story that was reported on last week. "I know who really killed Granny". It's about the trial of a man accused of committing a 1998 murder who fled the UK at the time but gave himself up last year. We have to wait until paragraph 15 before we're told that Granny was the nickname of a man called Grant. The article last week didn't mention it at all.

Elsewhere, there's a headline "GCSE students defy adversity" with the sub-headline "Celebrations as number of top grades rise despite pandemic and grading U-turn". Firstly, that "rise" should be "rises". Secondly (and I'm perhaps being a little cynical here), "despite" does not mean the same as "because of".

Other headlines:
Man left fighting for his life after brawl in street
Man sentenced over assault
Man sought in hate crime probe
Man fined for having heroin
Man who spat at police officer is jailed
Man denies he stole trimmer

Not to be outdone:
Woman is rescued in river drama
Woman spared jail over thefts

All in all, £1.10 well spent.




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