The Champion papers have been published, and I managed to get a story about Bickerbikers online, and get 9 others in print.

Those in print are:

- "Friends fix it for Carol" in the Southport Champion, as well as the Aintree & Maghull Champion, in which an amusement arcade owner thanks everyone for their help repairing everything after a burglary.

- "Crime prevention campaign extended" in the Skelmersdale Champion and the Ormskirk & West Lancashire Champion about a burglary campaign Lancashire's Police are extending.

- "Pharmacies open Bank Holiday" in the Skelmersdale Champion and Ormskirk & West Lancashire Champion, about Health centre opening times.

- "Shape up for health services", also in the Skelmersdale Champion as well as the Ormskirk & West Lancashire Champion (Page 2) about a survey the NHS are carrying out.

- "Guides wanted" in the Skelmersdale and Ormskirk & West Lancashire Champions about Girlguiding looking for new members.

- "Rare bird spotted at mere", in the Ormskirk & West Lancashire Champion, about a rare Wilson's Phalarope spotted at Martin Mere.

- "Drivers warned in speeding clampdown" in the Skelmersdale Champion about a spot check police have carried out.

- "Cathy proves a cut above" in the Aintree & Maghull Champion, about a ladies hairdressers celebrating 40 years.

- "Borther of 60s pop star Noone to stand for UKIP" in the Skelmersdale Champion about entertainer Damon Noone standing for the UK Independence Party. His brother ('the pop star') was part of the band Herman's Hermits.

Not bad, for 3 days of work experience, aye?

The thing that really annoys me, though, is that they managed to misspell my surname in nearly every piece. Just the articles my boyfriend subbed have the right spelling on them. I'm sick and tired of being Cornelia "Kaufman" instead of "Kaufmann", which would be the right spelling.... And the best thing is, I put my name under all of my articles, asking the editor to credit me with a byline. One of the first lessons in journalism is that you always spell-check, even common names can be spelled in several ways. So if a foreign names comes up, and the person it belongs to sits just across the table, couldn't you spare the second asking "Do you spell your surname with one n or two?" ???? Then again, he kept calling me everything, from Conny (which is my name, in the right spelling, I might add), over Cory and Corinne to Coleen... Honestly, people, my name is not that hard to pronounce or spell!!!