Nowadays not quite so many free newspapers are delivered door to door and more racks are provided around town to allow people to pick up their own free newspaper.

The Oxfordshire Guardian was launched in 2011 as our area’s free newspaper, taking over from The South Oxfordshire Courier which closed in 2008.

Until recently there was The Oxfordshire Guardian – South Oxfordshire Edition. But about eight weeks ago appeared an Abingdon Edition, a Didcot and a Wantage edition. There is also a South Oxfordshire and the Vale edition for the villages.

This week’s lead story in the Abingdon edition is “Let’s All Work Together” which pictures three of Abingdon’s Movers and Shakers asking how do we attract more visitors to the town.

The Herald had quite a major revamp three weeks ago – probably the biggest since it went tabloid. The format has become more modern, more pages have been added, and new writers do features in the Herald Leisure section. The price has also jumped from 45p to 70p.

Personally, I read it much as before, skipping over most of the Wantage, Didcot, and Wallingford stories unless they strike me as particularly interesting, and concentrating on what is happening in Abingdon.

The title is now “The Herald – Abingdon” – rather than “The Abingdon Herald”.

From page 2 of the Oxfordshire Grundian (sic) of Thursday, April 12 – Wednesday, April 18. 2012

* (Left to right) Abingdon Major Duncan Grant and Deputy Major Alasdair Fear launch buns at last year’s royal wedding.

should say

* (Right to Left) Abingdon Mayor Duncan Brown and Councillor Martin Smith launch buns at last year’s royal wedding.

It takes genius to get it so wrong.