No news is not good news

August was officially a no-news month on the BBC. Trying to find out what, if anything, has been happening in Cheshire over the last 31 days has been impossible. Other news sources have carried Cheshire news, but not Aunty. Whole weeks have passed in Cestrian silence.

So it was with something akin to shock yesterday to discover that the BBC was reporting on the 22nd (Cheshires) Regiment merger with others in the region. The original story was posted at around 6pm yesterday (the page has been updated today), by which time many of the events around the merger had already taken place. Naturally, this gives no one an opportunity to go along and see what's happening, as much of this was in public. It's not the first time the BBC has decided belatedly to report news so late as to deprive the public of participation.

But some news was better than nothing, we suppose.

Let's hope the reporting rate improves this month.