Cambridgeshire Live 12+

I left Cambridge in 1977 to start a new career in the Prison Service. This took me to various parts of England and I have now settled in the midlands. My love of course is Cambridge United and I can help follow them and other interests through this paper. It’s great to read all the local news and gossip, yes and at times I feel a little home sick.

I must be getting old because I remember when the Cambridge News was an interesting read....but now.......
Filled online with ridiculous articles along the the lines of...’Fifteen hilarious things overheard in Debenhams’ and articles.....I’ve just read one about an attempted robbery in Waterbeach written by an Ian Hughes where the same information was repeated time and again but just in a slightly different way, presumably just to bulk out the report. Reminds me ....of me...doing my school homework!!
The changes have probably been brought about by the parent company The Mirror Group. Whatever it is I feel I’ll be removing the app before long.
Sorry CN but there are lots of places I can go to read meaningless badly written news items......

The app seems faster than the old one, which was very slow.
I get a lot of alerts, some of which are useful, but others are little more than headlines. It can be annoying to open the article to find little more detail, though often they add more later.
But my biggest concern is some of the journalism, which has lots of bad spelling and grammar. Today I finally thought I’d raise this, when reading about reefs on the war memorial - momentary confusion until I realised the picture was showing wreaths! Is there no literate editor?