"You guys are losing it," said her letter. Her visit was documented in the G2 section. "We just couldn't understand it," she complained to a sympathetic Polly Toynbee before the start of the paper's morning news conference, we're told. "The pirates were just about to get the golden monkey's head and then the next episode never came! So we never got to find out what happened. Now we'll never know."
A chap called Steve, deputy editor on the family desk, had the tough task of explaining the demise of the comic. "He talks circulation, ad revenue, print time, production costs, staffing and editorial vs marketing budgets." But agrees it's a shame to see the section go. "We need people your age to be interested in newspapers," he tells Charlotte.
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