Pressing matters - when papers get blogging

Two of our local newspapers, the Chester Chronicle and the Chester Evening Leader, are now offering blogging facilities on their websites to readers.

Of the five on the Chronicle's site, one looked potentially interesting as it seemed to be about the Literature Festival but it has only one entry from last November and appears to have been abandoned. Of the others, two were by out-of-town readers (Runcorn and New Zealand), one is by a pair of Chester-based screenwriters - the Drama Queens - and is quite entertaining, and the fifth is the personal blog of Chronicle columnist John Buckley.

Over at the Evening Leader, there were more blogs to choose from. However, as the paper is based in Wrexham on the other side of the Welsh border, unsurprisingly most of the blogs were not about Chester. Martin Wright, the paper's deputy editor, has a fairly eclectic personal blog on the go, while colleague Steve Graves, focuses more on the business of journalism.