EXAMPLE PRESS RELAEASE

(Previous Post 22 June 2011)

For Immediate Release

RIDE FOR TAX RELIEF PLANNED

The plain fact of the matter is that taxes are too high in Coventry. The poor are starving while the nobles are feasting on the fat of the land.

Many have been asking 'What can we do to relieve ourselves of this burden?'. Sadly, the only person who can help is good King Ethelred. But he is as-yet unready to act. He needs to be shown that the good people of Coventry are solidly behind tax relief.

Our own Lady Godiva has decided to arouse our people to action. She will ride her horse from the Cathedral to the Chapel at mid-day on St. Swithin's Day next. To show her solidarity with the poor, she will not wear her luxurious vestments. If enough people come to observe the ride, King Ethelred will get the message.

For further information contact Piers Ploughman at the Sign of the Unicorn.

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A Gas Well Will Blow Up

ROUGH DRAFT

New technologies often run trouble-free for twenty or thirty years. But, from train derailments in the nineteenth century, to the Challenger space shuttle and the Three-Mile Island nuclear reactor in the last century, and the Gulf oil spill last year, disaster finally happens. The cause could be carelessness with successful equipment or stretching the technology too far or lax regulation or some of all three. Before a major accident, advocates talk of how safe and clean their technology is – such as we hear now about fracking to stimulate gas and oil wells. But drilling oil wells in the Gulf and gas wells on shore have similarities. One can freely predict a major gas-well explosion will follow the BP oil spill. There have already been small gas-well explosions (including one in Geauga County). They should serve as a warning.