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"'The Evening News believes it's time to celebrate good things in life'"
Published Date: 24 June 2007
By JESSICA MCGOVERN
TONY Blair may have attacked the British media as a 'feral beast' obsessed by scandal and controversy, but a Scottish newspaper is marking his departure as Prime Minster by dedicating a full edition to nothing but good news stories.
The Edinburgh Evening News will celebrate "Good News Day" on Thursday, the day Gordon Brown takes over from Blair at 10 Downing Street. All of the paper's news, features and sport will be "happy, positive and uplifting".

A statement from the pape
r explained: "The News believes it's time to celebrate the good things in life."

It said that the issue will feature a special masthead on the front page renaming the paper 'The Edinburgh Evening Good News'.

The newspaper's editor, John McLellan, said: "Newspapers are always accused of being harbingers of doom and gloom, and although it's true to say that the biggest stories usually involve some element of human tragedy or failings, newspapers do not focus entirely on the negative aspects of life.

"So we thought it would be worthwhile to celebrate the good things about Edinburgh and the Lothians, and to ensure that every single story in one day's paper was positive about life here."

He said that the city has an incredible amount going for it: "low crime, low unemployment, fantastic entertainment, top-class sports, great schools and universities, and a manageable size."

He added: "We hope our readers look forward to a good news day with plenty of uplifting stories about life in one of the greatest places in the world to live."

McLellan said: "The fact that it's also the first full day Tony Blair is not Prime Minister has nothing to do with it!"



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1

Jimmy the Pie,

North Sea 24/06/2007 00:38:52

Just as well I don't waste money on the Evening Times.

2

Guga II,

Rockall 24/06/2007 06:01:55

No doubt it will still have the Scotsman's total bias towards the New Labour unionist numpties.

3

Knox,

In bed 24/06/2007 08:27:37

Good riddance

4

alex paterson,

embra 24/06/2007 11:23:01

One clown out,Another clown walks in,Cant see Gordon the Ghoul doing any better.

5

Martin 2,

Edinburgh 24/06/2007 12:31:59

Given the normal drivel this "newspaper" serves up as "news" - then I don't think I will be waiting with baited breath until Thursday.

I reckon it will be good news stories about trams, traffic wardens and rubbish bins in the new town blocking 4*4 parking spaces -the staple diet of this paper over the last 4 years. Oh yeah, maybe some artists impression of a Princes Street regeneration that will never see the light of day.....

6

Safe Target,

Planet Earth 24/06/2007 14:52:37

Hope he walks off into oblivion........or do I really mean OBLITERATION??.....Hmmm!........I'll get back to you once the euphoria subsides !!

7

57Nomad,

california 24/06/2007 16:41:08

Mr. Tony Blair

On behalf hundreds of millions of Americans I would like to thank you with all my heart. You never took the easy way out. You never flinched. You represent everything that is great in the British people.

On behalf of the defense of the rights of man and against history's latest manifestation of the Eternal Hun, you stood shoulder to shoulder with us and weathered the slings from the enemies of civilization both at home and abroad and you sacrificed your own position on behalf of what is right. You are a man, a real man.

God Speed, Tony

Thank you.

8

BooncinMad!,

Florida 24/06/2007 17:17:11

Good riddance of bad rubish. As to the above post 7, I am easpecially glad that Blair has won your (the american peoples) confidence. Unfortunately he is supposed to be appeasing the british people who voted him into power and producing results on the policies that he proposed and we wanted on our island.

How much will the price of a packet of fags and litre of fuel cost after Gorden builds his subs?
The British are getting poorer as a result of higher taxes and influx of europeans in a fashion not disimiler to USA.
Just ask the hundreds of thousands of graduates and qualifed mid twenties who are still living with their parents because a house and mortgage is a near inpossible dream.

9

Rhonda,

24/06/2007 23:15:56

#7 Right on! #8 shall we cry for you unfortunate soul? Mortgage, still living with parents, near impossible dream.... Work for it. Everyone else does.

10

Rab McClair,

Bemused 25/06/2007 15:14:30

#7 57NOMAD

Sir
You have no idea just how snivelling your remarks to Tony BLIAR come across in this country.
What you do is praise to the rooftops a man who(along with your pathetic and imbecilic president) have attacked a country who, despite many MANY faults in its leadership, did not show any aggression to either of our homelands. Not only this, but they have through the so-called "shock and awe" bombed much of Iraq bqck to the stone age , killing hundreds of thousands of total innocents in the process, and deliberately LIED to the people of our two ALLEGED democracies. The children and other innocents of a still burning Iraq are dieing still thanks to these cretinous leaders.
If you sir, believe that to be worthy of your cringe-worthy words to the BLIAR, then sir, you need to seriously rethink what your countries relationship with the UK needs be in future, because the major leeson learnt over here is that when the US decides to terrorise another third world civilisation, the US is gonna have to find some other mugs to allow you to justify some future "coalition of the willing"....(a coalition of the conned would be more applicable)...and IF you are proud of your countries stance here, I can only tell you that the people of the UK are thoroughly ashamed of how they have allowed themselves to be taken in by BLIAR and his nauseating fawning before your dumbest-ever president (and that IS saying something after Reagan, Ford etc). Tony Bliar is no courageous man sir...he is a coward, liar, and war criminal of the very highest order, and it is the earnest wish of many of us here that both he and the Disgusting Dubya should find themselves one day soon holding hands at the bar of the dock in The Hague, (following in the footsteps of earlier evil killers like Milosevic and Co.) and that justice prevails whereby they never ever see the light of day ever again.
A great man...Indeed Not...

11

Donald MacKenzie,

Aberdeen 29/06/2007 00:20:37

Tony Blair was a man of conviction, who stood by his principles and his allies loyally. For him to be decried as a "disgusting apology of a human being" by someone who has never experienced the challenges of leadership is a disgrace. It is all too easy to judge our politicians from a self-constructed ivory tower of rightehousness, without ever coming to comprehend the various dilemmas which they face every day. In addition to compare the "crimes" of George Bush and Tony Blair to those of Milosevic, a man who systematically murdered, raped and displaced hundreds of thousands of persons is not only ludicrous, but in its disengenuous sentiment serves to offend the victims and survivors of genocide the world over.

As anyone who has a basic knowledge of international law knows, particularly in light of the Pinochet precedent, leaders are only subject to universal jurisdiction if they have committed crimes against humanity. It would be foolish and unsound to claim that the invasion of Iraq and continued military presence, at the behest of a sovereign, democratically elected Iraqi government, in anyway constitutes a crime against humanity, given that in no way is it the policy of any of the allied countries to exterminate, displace, rape, torture or enslave the Iraqi people, in the same way that criminals like Pinochet, Milosevic, or Taylor have done.
Reconsider your arguments and your understanding of International Law before you lambast an upright and admirable man.

12

scotsdoc,

Nanaimo BC Canada 30/06/2007 06:38:08

Credit where credit is due..Blair did get BUSH TO STOP THE COLLECTION TINS IN THE PUBS OF THE EASTERN STATES THAT FINANCED THE IRA!
And Jerry Adams was no longer feted in Washington. And that did clip the wings of the IRA.

It would be interesting to know HOW MUCH HELP THE IRA RECEIVED FROM THE CIA, previously.

The dirty tricks section of the CIA are past masters at fomenting discord amongst the USA's rivals! Today they ADMIT to having clandestine operations under way in about 40+ countries.

All said and done, I feel that the dual albatros of Afghanistan and Iraq will tarnish Tony Blair in the historical record.

13

Beth Boyle,

Western, New York State 30/06/2007 23:55:14

I don't feel the same as the person from California. I blame Tony Blair for the Iraq war. Had he stood his ground and refused to follow Bush into the quicksand it would have saved thousands of lives. I love the UK but think Blair sold out and was indeed Bush's poodle. The American oil barrons bought Britan for a pence. Such a shame, a bl---y shame!


 

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