Parish Notices

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Parish Notices

The price rise

Due to increasing postal and printing costs, Lobster had ceased to pay for itself. Hence the cover price rise to £4.00 for UK readers. Looking back I found that Lobster had been £3.00 since 1999. A 33.3% increase in 10 years is 3.3% a year — about the average rise in inflation in the wider economy.

This edition

There isn’t much in this issue about the economic situation because there really isn’t much to say that hasn’t already been said, for example by Larry Elliot in The Guardian every week. Yes, it might have been fun to write a ‘Well, we told you so’ sort of piece, but to whom would that be addressed? Chances are very good that if you are reading Lobster you never bought into the free market nonsense any way. So, yes, there has been some chortling here and some conversations about ‘pigeons coming home’, and ‘the bankers always fuck things up if you let them’ etc. Take all that as read. Meanwhile normal (as it were) Lobster subjects continue in this edition.

Robin Ramsay

Lobster is edited and published by:
Robin Ramsay at 214 Westbourne Avenue, Hull, HU5 3JB. UK
Tel: 01482 447558. e-mail:
Web site at www.lobster-magazine.co.uk
ISSN: 0964-0436

Subscriptions

Lobster appears in June and December each year. A year’s subscription (two issues) costs:

  • UK – £8.00
  • Europe – £9.00
  • Elsewhere – £10.00 (or equivalent)

These prices include airmail postage for overseas subscribers.

  • Overseas subscribers please send International Money Orders, cheques drawn on a UK banks, or a bank with a UK Branch, or cash in sterling or U.S. dollar equivalent.
    Make cheques payable to ‘Lobster’ and send to the address on the rear cover [shown above]
  • When subscribing, please state from which issue (ie which number) to being the subscription.

Previous Lobsters

  • If buying single copies, 9, 10, 13, 17, 18, 20, 21 are £2.00 (UK); £3.00 (Europe), £3.50 (elsewhere).
  • The others are £3.00 each (UK); £3.50 (Europe), £4.50 (elsewhere);
  • If buying more than one deduct £0.50 per copy.
  • These prices include airmail postage overseas
  • Outside the UK send International Money Orders, a cheques drawn on a UK bank (or non-UK cash with a UK branch); or cash — dollars or Euros. Make payable to ‘Lobster’ and send to the address above.

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