ANOTHER OF MR HACK'S SENSELESS SURVEYS: What are the first newspapers you remember? Believe it or not, Mr Hack's grandfather, who lived near Saintfield, would assemble his family of seven children, and read aloud to them each week from (no, not the Bible, though he may have done that as well) but from the "Down Recorder"...which must have been regarded as some sort of greatly authoritative source to be treated with such reverence. Mr Hack's earliest memory is of the "Weekly News" which is still going, if not going strong, at least still with us, unlike the "Empire News" on Sundays or "Reynold's News" - anybody recall that? The Down Recorder, one of the few independently-owned weeklies left in Northern Ireland, is still in good shape. So grandpa must have been a good judge!
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