In Competition No. 2890 you were invited to imagine that one of the major newspapers has ceased publication and provide a verse lament for it.
In his 2004 book The Vanishing Newspaper Philip Meyer predicted that the final hard-copy newspaper will plop through someone’s letterbox in 2043. So who’ll be the first to go? Over to you.
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