The Hereford Times

Little Mayor Day

12:16pm Friday 15th February 2008

Last Wednesday I went on a visit to the Hereford Times offices as part of Little Mayor Day.

On Little Mayor Day I (as previously mentioned) went to the Hereford Times offices to see what happened there, then I 'hosted' lunch at the Town Hall for some of the City Councilors and a question and answer session was after that and then I met up with my family and went to see the performance of 'Sinbad and the Golden Chalice' at the courtyard.

The Times offices were very interesting and I felt I learnt a lot. I was surprised at how open plan the offices were as I expected all the different departments to be in separate rooms, but in fact they were all in one room. I was shown the Sports Times area which I liked the most because that is the area of the paper which I read the most. One aspect of the trip that I liked was looking at pieces of the paper for the next day on the computer screens because I got a preview of the paper before most other people.

The lunch at the Town Hall was very enjoyable as was the Question and Answer session afterwards. The councillors were very good and I got a lot of information from them. Some of the questions that really got them talking were: "What is the difference between the City council & the County council?" & "Had the City council have anything to do with the school closure plans?"

The pantomime was good and I enjoyed it a lot. The songs were very entertaining and my favourite character was "Call me Al", the baddie as I thought he was very good.