A message from Times proprietor Sir Ray Tindle in this, Local Newspaper Week:

EVERYONE on the staff of the Times ? your local newspaper ? is at your service. Each week they try to make it as interesting, as useful, as complete, as accurate and as acceptable as possible.

They have been doing this for many years and hope that they have given you, our readers and advertisers, reasonable satisfaction. We hope you will tell us how we may improve or add to the local information we provide.

We are still a family-owned independent newspaper with no political affiliation, dedicated to this town and this community.

This is Local Newspaper Week ? an opportunity to rededicate ourselves to this service. Thank you, readers and advertisers, for your support. We?ll do our best to repay it through the content of our columns.