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Article: MEDIA: When a little old lady in black boots talks tough, we listen Peter York on Ads: The Herald
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 23, 2005
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Now here's a strange one. Sixty seconds of big thought from a
newspaper I've never heard of. In today's competitive market where
money off at the local liposuction clinic is more like it. But The
Herald (from Glasgow) has a moody image, tough words describing
horrible things and an old woman who looks rather like Joan Hickson.
Maybe it's a very reflective population in The Herald's
circulation area, made up of the last proper middle classes left
alive - concerned headmistresses with their hair in grey buns, public
health inspectors above reproach, Doctor Finlays. Rather like, say,
the good people of Ottawa where some of the forgotten virtues are
preserved (a fair few Scots there).
This old ...