Welcome to Coastal View & Moor News Issue 138

The future of Coastal View

In June 2010 we started on a great adventure into the unknown when we decided to provide a newspaper for our own area.

The only experience we had was the fact that I used to work in Advertising for both the Evening Gazette and Northern Echo and Steve was a display designer but with no experience in the newspaper industry.

We moved into East Cleveland, Loftus to be exact in October 2006 having lived in Greece for many years.

Before moving to Greece I lived in the North East, hence the work at both newspapers but neither of us are originally from the area, Steve is from London and I’m from West Yorkshire.

We very quickly learned that this area was something special, with its proximity to the sea and the moors together with its industrial heritage. And so Coastal View was borne out of our love for the area and the people in it.

But after 13 years we have had to make a very difficult decision and take the newspaper in a different direction and that is to put it online rather than in the printed format that you have all become accustomed to. It was this or nothing and that would have been such a shame especially when we receive comments like this one from Mike Morrissey a well known Saltburn resident and regular contributor to the paper.

“May a self-confessed “news junkie” say how much I appreciated several stories in the March issue, which I’ve not spotted elsewhere.

Notably about the Marske roundabout housing developments - the public needs to keep an eye on these plans - the ash trees’ disease scare and Jack Noble’s profile.

“And I welcome two pages of Saltburn news each month !

“Here’s hoping you keep up this good news service under the new internet-only publication system from the May issue.”

Over the years we have had the pleasure of supporting and working with some great organisations eg Freebrough Academy, Middlesbrough Football Foundation, The Junction, and the National Citizens Service.

We have supported local community groups and campaigned for local fights on behalf of the business owners of Longbeck Industrial Estate, the residents of Tingdene Caravan Park and the residents of Boosbeck in their fight against the abattoir to name a few.

The paper has survived through five different PMs and we have worked with most of our five local MPs.

We have recognised many of our local community heroes when we held the Coastal View Community Awards from 2012-2018 first at Saltburn Golf Club and after at Freebrough Academy whilst raising money for The Junction Foundation, Young Carers.

We will always be grateful in the early days to Steve Duck and later to Peter Collinson for helping us on the delivery days in all weathers and we thank Rob for his hard work in sometimes difficult times.

We thank the loyal advertisers who have had faith in us from the beginning and will continue to support us, the distributors who have worked tirelessly hard in all weathers and the contributors who have provided the stories and not forgetting Liz for her hard work over the years.

Coastal View is not saying goodbye just, see you on the other side.

From the May issue you will be able to read the paper online at our brand new website coastalview. online, on facebook page Coastal View as well as Coastal View on twitter and Linked In and we hope to include on Instagram too.

The format and the content of the paper will be exactly the same meaning that it will still include all the regular features and will have flip pages, making it easy to read.

There is no point in having a paper at all if we don’t have the support of you, the readers, because you are the reason we are continuing to produce it.

So we ask you to carry on supporting your own local community newspaper and wherever possible to share it on your social media so that others may read it too.

This is not the end, just the beginning of a new chapter.

Thank you as always for reading this and we hope you enjoy reading this issue.

Lynne & Steve Nicholls

Coastal View & Moor News is published, produced and distributed by Genesis Media Promotions, 67 Guisborough Road, Moorsholm,

Coastal View & Moor News Outlets

Redcar

The Community Heart

McColls

Laburnum Rd

Savers, High St

Seabreeze, Coatham

Clock Gallery

Aldi West Dyke Rd

Reminiscence

Tea Room

West Terrace

Saltburn

Jackie’s

Saverstore

Dormanstown

Westfield Farm

Premier Store

Guisborough

Sunnyfield House

Guisborough Pool

Easington

Farm Direct

Staithes

Co-op

Genesis Media Promotions accepts no liability from any contract entered into with any advertiser. The publication of advertising in this newspaper does not imply any approval or recommendation by Genesis Media Promotions of those goods and services advertised. Any views stated in Coastal View & Moor News are not necessarily those of Genesis Media Promotions who remain impartial from and are not connected with any political parties and other organisations.

We conform to the newspaper industry’s voluntary Code of Practice, administered by the Press Complaints Commission. If you feel that we have made an error in a report, or have fallen below our high standards please write in the first instance to Lynne Nicholls, Genesis Media Promotions, 67 Guisborough Road, Moorsholm, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, TS12 3JA. Telephone 01287 669418 or email editor@coastalviewandmoornews.co.uk. For information about the Press Complaints Commission, including details of how to make a complaint telephone 0207 8310 0022 or visit www.pcc.org.uk

Brotton Cleveland Country Store

Marske

Longbeck Nurseries

New Marske

McColls

New Marske

Pharmacy

Gleneagles Centre

Public Libraries

Guisborough

Loftus

Redcar

Marske

Saltburn

Dormanstown

Laburnum Rd

Ormesby

25k Centre

Ayton Drive

Brotton

Contacts 9am-5pm Monday - Friday

Have Your Say and General Editorial Steve & Lynne Nicholls 01287 669418 editor@coastalviewandmoornews.co.uk

Advertising Lynne Nicholls 01287 669418 advertising@coastalviewandmoornews.co.uk www.coastalviewandmoornews.co.uk

This Month 25,500 copies

Coastal View & Moor News is distributed to areas of: Redcar, Marske, Saltburn, Guisborough, Brotton, Loftus, Carlin How, Skinningrove, Skelton, Easington, Lingdale, Stanghow, Boosbeck, Margrove Park, Charltons, Moorsholm, Liverton Mines, Liverton Village, New Marske, Dunsdale, Yearby, Ugthorpe, Staithes as well as libraries, and various other outlets.