I went along to the town hall last night, for a meeting of the council's "media scrutiny panel".
Beforehand I was a bit suspicious about the whole thing - had we and our rival newspaper in the town just been invited along for a couple of hours of bear bating?
In the end, it proved to be a worthwhile and pretty constructive meeting, though one suggestion from the panel particularly threw me - that the Crawley News should 'go broadsheet' to avoid a 'sensationalist' tone.
I'm not convinced that a broadsheet paper is what the people of Crawley want, particularly at a time when both the national and regional trend is to go tabloid.
Besides, as reporter Alex Morrison quite rightly pointed out, how would you get a broadsheet through the door?
