Our local rag has just undergone a change of editorship, and not before time. Bear in mind that the Southend Echo is essentially one and the same as the Basildon version, where Andy Coulson cut his journalistic fangs, and the previous editor was everything you might have expected him to be. Mendacious and twisting to a fault, this guy has now retired and in recent weeks a new guy has taken his place.
The difference, so far, is huge. The paper is actually doing the job a newspaper is meant to do - holding the council to account and daring to criticise. I wonder how long he will last before the owners, and the good ol' boys who influence them, will get shot of him and put some other nasty corrupting influence in charge.