Mike Packwood

It's a shame that Northampton no longer has its Herald and Post free newspaper. It closed its doors, or rather had its doors closed for it in 2016 by Trinity Mirror, who ended up being its final custodian. Its closure was inevitable. The newspaper marketplace has changed beyond recognition since the Post, as it what originally called, first hit the streets in the mid 70's, and its true to say that it had never been the same since it moved from private ownership - owned by people who launched and nurtured it, to being just another very small cog in a mammoth corporate wheel (of misfortune). The second home of Post Newspapers: Newspaper House in Derngate I began my newspaper career at the Post in the late 70's as a paper boy and then as a van driver (part tine while still attempting to be a pop-star, details of which you'll find elsewhere on this blog). I think I joined full time about 5 years into the life of the Post. It had begun as a paid for title competing wit