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Ilkeston Life Celebrates 11 Years in Print
This September marks a special milestone for Ilkeston Life, as the newspaper celebrates 11 years in print.
Since the first issue appeared in September 2015, Ilkeston Life has had one simple purpose: to tell the stories of the town and the people who make it what it is.
Eleven years later, that is still at the heart of everything we do.
Over more than a decade, thousands of stories have appeared in these pages. We have celebrated achievements, welcomed new businesses, remembered familiar faces, reported on local events and shared the work of schools, churches, charities, community groups, sports clubs and volunteers.
Some stories made us smile, others made us proud, and inevitably, some brought sadness. Through it all, Ilkeston Life has tried to provide a place where local people can see what is happening in their own community.
A lot has changed since 2015.
We have seen major national and international events, changes in how people get their news, and an ever-growing move towards websites and social media. Ilkeston itself has changed too, with businesses opening and closing, new developments appearing and another generation beginning to make its mark on the town.
Yet something special still happens when a local newspaper arrives through the door.
You can pick it up with a cup of tea, flick through the pages, spot somebody you know, discover an event you had not heard about or read a story from a street just a few minutes away.
Local news matters because local life matters.
The big national headlines may dominate television and the internet, but they rarely tell you about the fundraiser taking place around the corner, the school pupil who has achieved something remarkable, the volunteers giving up their Saturday morning to help others or the club that desperately needs a few more members.
Those stories deserve to be told too.
Of course, Ilkeston Life could never have reached its 11th birthday without the people who contribute to it.
We are enormously grateful to everyone who sends us stories, photographs, letters, event details and information each month. Thank you to our advertisers, whose support helps make the newspaper possible, and to everyone involved in producing and distributing each edition.
Most of all, thank you to our readers.
Some of you have been picking up Ilkeston Life since that very first edition in September 2015. Others may be reading it for the first time this month.
Either way, you are part of the reason we are still here.
Eleven years is something worth celebrating, but we have plenty more stories to tell.
Ilkeston keeps giving us new people to meet, achievements to celebrate, causes to support and stories to share.
Here’s to the next chapter of Ilkeston Life.
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