New Editor has Parish's Mag Down to a Fine Art ; When Jamie Warde-Aldam Took Over the Parish Magazine, Few People Can Have Imagined What They Were Going to Get. David Whetstone Meets an Editor with a Mission to Entertain.

The Journal › November 25, 2009

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OUT in the wide, open spaces above the Tyne Valley is a tiny gem of a church with beautiful stained glass windows and birds chirruping in the trees outside. It's St John's, Healey, and its proportions are probably just about right for a lightly-populated, scattered parish.

The parish has a magazine, too, but not your conventional photocopied list of services with a message from the vicar and a line drawing of the church on the cover.

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New Editor has Parish's Mag Down to a Fine Art ; When Jamie Warde-Aldam Took Over the Parish Magazine, Few People Can Have Imagined What They Were Going to Get. David Whetstone Meets an Editor with a Mission to Entertain.

The Parish Magazine of St John's, Healey, has a bit of swagger about it. It glories in the name of The Hotspur and every edition - the proud boast goes - contains "a free print by a first-rate poet or artist".

With a print run of about 100, it is becoming a bit of a collector's item, and was reviewed in the Independent on Sunday, thereby attaining a reach far beyond the ...

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