Dear readers,

I hope you’ve had a great week.

Welcome to Friday’s edition, which regular readers will know we usually paywall the main story on to help pay for what we do. But not today.

A flurry of new subscribers means we’re keeping the paywall off as we take a proper look at the story behind some news that surfaced a few days ago as a press release. Which is how anyone else who ‘reported’ on the story ran it.

And in doing an opportunity was missed to ask a few questions and find out how the news of a fledgling firm from Turkey choosing to open a UK headquarters in Gloucestershire reflected on the county and what that really means.

Which is exactly what we did. The short answer, is it means a lot.

For those who don’t know, this is what The Raikes Journal is seeking to do. With the collapse of local media and the tendency among even the most ‘serious’ business news websites for the regions to simply run press releases, we’re trying to keep the flame of journalism alive and deliver somethin…