As controversy continues
about the Mary Portas TV programme about Margate, the new issue of THANET WATCH magazine
tells the story the viewers' didn't see.
Drawing on inside sources
and exclusive video footage filmed at the time, THANET WATCH describes how the TV
programmer makers tried to control Margate Town Team AND how Mary Portas
herself dramatically intervened to shape events.
But the
magazine also reveals other off-camera shenanigans and sheds light on the
role of Thanet Council in the process which led to the shock resignation of key
players in the Town Team.
Said
THANET WATCH editor
Norman Thomas: "I believe the hard efforts of the volunteers who won
Margate's bid to become a Portas Town were undermined by people only
really
interested in making a reality TV show.
"There needs to be a
serious public investigation into the making of this programme," said Mr Thomas,
"and it must look closely at the roles of both the government and of Thanet
council."
If you want to
know what really went on when Mary Portas came to Margate, get the
new issue of THANET WATCH in newsagents across Thanet now, price
80p
FOR MORE INFORMATION RING
THANET WATCH ON 07989070843
I wonder if there is anyone naive enough to give the red hall club 80p (they never did try to justify their rampant profitering leading to the 30% price rise of their rag) to try to find "what really went on" on any subject.
ReplyDeleteOne has to wonder why it is that the other towns involved with Portas have moved forward yet Margate, with it's luddite, nimby core, stays rooted firmly in the 50's.