Bizarrely a story I worked on way back in October 1995 was featured in a nostalgia page in the publication now known as The Mail (but it will always be the North West Evening Mail to me because that was what it was when I worked there between 1992 and 1996. Basically I am not taking any notice of the corporate suits who suddenly noticed that the paper did not appear in the evening (trust me that was first raised when I was in Barrow in the early 1990s).

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Basically this front page featured on a nostalgia page in the North West Evening Mail in 1995 but it was not the main story on the front page so basically it was not that day’s splash.

As I recall I was asked to go along to the scene together with one of the reporters to get a story for that day’s edition. When we arrived at the crime scene we approached the police officers and got a few comments and I was given privileged access to photograph the scene. I think the fact that the paper was still published in black and white meant that the blood in the phone box was not that gory.

I have previously commented in the past about how things have changed over access to information and the fact that the police have taken an approach to brand protection. When I first moved to Carlisle in 2013 I was sent to a murder scene in Stanwyx and the detective who was in charge of the investigation placed a large exclusion area around the home where the crime had actually happened and he refused to speak with the press which I felt was a bit over the top.

But since then I have spoken with officers at various events and there has been no problem.