Incredible Article on the Mid Sussex Times site

[Pavilionaire]

My problem isn't with the story but the missed opportunity of headline potential. Never mind "Early customers find Boots shut", I'd have gone for something like:

"HAYWARDS HEATH DRUGS SHAME - Missing dealer throws manor into chaos!"

 

[Storer 68]

Police have released this image of the shocking scenes that confronted them in Hassocks this morning.

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

Seems that the crisis has spread to Surrey. Delivery driver unable to get the doors of the Boots lorry open outside the Cranleigh store earlier today; pharmacist was in attendance (univ colleague of my wife) but the store remained open throughout

I'm going back into Cranleigh later and will report back with any updates - ie Meridian reporters, Surrey Advertiser/W Sx County Times photographers etc

 

[Manx Shearwater]

They soon got the matter under control though!

 

[Storer 68]

That's why the doors were locked!!!!! The scene outside Boots Keymer Road at 1.45 this afternoon as people tried to get in

 

[MikeySmall]

That's why the doors were locked!!!!! The scene outside Boots Keymer Road at 1.45 this afternoon as people tried to get in

Why are the police so underprepared?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Pleased to announce that the Burgess Hill branch was open & doing a brisk trade this afternoon.

 

[amexee]

Now, I do not want to cast aspersions on the diligence of the middy reporter, but I will.

If they had returned to the store between 1.30-2.30 they would probably have seen the usual sign on the medicine counter that says nothing can be sold from there as the pharmacist is at lunch.

I am hoping that a suitably in depth investigation can explain why the whole store did not have to close during this period.

 

[DumLum]

Now, I do not want to cast aspersions on the diligence of the middy reporter, but I will.

If they had returned to the store between 1.30-2.30 they would probably have seen the usual sign on the medicine counter that says nothing can be sold from there as the pharmacist is at lunch.

I am hoping that a suitably in depth investigation can explain why the whole store did not have to close during this period.

Having lived the first 30 years of my life in Brighton & Hove I couldn't believe that you could not get medicine from boots between 1.30-2.30 in Haywards Heath.

Years later, I have learnt to accept the shorter life expectancy for those of us that have a lunch break at the same time as the pharmacist.

 

[Razi]

The Middy have, today, published a follow-up piece to this sensation news story..

Tremor through Twitter and web fans at Boots closure story - News - Mid Sussex Times

 

[Manx Shearwater]

Wow, not just reporting on the news, but MAKING IT!!!

Perhaps young Murdoch has quit to take up a position there.

 

[saslowi]

End of world avoided. That was close.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

I have to go to Haywards Heath tomorrow - for the second time in my life, I believe - do you think it's safe ? What if I get a headache and there's no pharmacist available.

 

[1959]

Meanwhile, over in Chichester..........

Broken door handle traps editor - Local - West Sussex Gazette

 

[Blackadder]

I have to go to Haywards Heath tomorrow - for the second time in my life, I believe - do you think it's safe ? What if I get a headache and there's no pharmacist available.

It's safe Tricky. There are a network of us NSCers here to look out for you.