‘Tell me something and it better be juicy,’ I’d often say to local business owners. Sometimes, they thought I wanted them to reveal their innermost secrets – I didn’t, although I would have relished the chance to hear them. What I really wanted to hear was something that would captivate the readers of the local rag to come and do business with them.
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