Brighouse Echo ((Brighouse) Brighouse Echo)

Member Name: polydeuces

Product:	(Brighouse) Brighouse Echo
Date:	06/08/08 (77 review reads)
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Brighouse is a small Yorkshire town in the shadow of the great towns of Huddersfield and Halifax. Its local paper is The Brighouse Echo and it is published every Friday.

As it covers a small area it does tend to have difficulty in finding something to write about. Consequently the stories tend to be quite trivial or quite repetitive. Like many local papers the majority of stories tend to be about crime. I also wonder if this is because local papers tend to be read by older people. The Echo does also have stories about local interest items like water quality and local planning applications.
Inside there is a lively column about local pubs which gives some background to the drinking holes of the area. The Echo is all very local to the point of being parochial. The entertainment column has reviews of what the local amateurs are doing as well as lists of what is on in the brightlights of Halifax or Huddersfield.

There is a lot of coverage of the local football teams Brighouse Town and Brighouse rangers as well as junior sport. There is also a good fishing column for the anglers in the area.
The Brighouse Echo is a reasonably good local paper. The editors obviously make an effort to provide something other than the usual crime and school-photo fare of the local paper. Sometimes though it is hard to achieve anything new.

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