If you’ve any photos you think would look nice on the BeLocal front page and are relevant to the time of year (based on general UK dates/activites such as Bonfire Night, Christmas, New Years Eve etc.) then please email us - team@belocal.com and we’ll get back to you if we’d like to showcase them on the front page.

We’ll be out later with the ghosts and goblins. We won’t BeScared!

From the East Anglian Daily Times - our ‘local’ paper: “Prince Charles will stamp a Royal seal of approval on the campaign to promote small shops when he meets some of Suffolk’s successful producers.”

We fully support the Shop Local campaign - the major supermarkets have a role to play but as more and more people recognise the benefits of ‘being local’ we think the local shop *will* return.

Where do you shop - get in touch and let us know about your local shops.

Southwold beach huts image from zoer on flickr

I predict a surge in hyperlocal writing and connecting — I stop short of referring to it as ‘news’ or ‘journalism’ — linked with various aspects of living locally. Since these various threads may not be mutually supportive, they won’t add up to anything like the strange combination of things that we have in the modern newspaper, with its funnies, horoscopes, national news, local sports, classifieds, Sunday supplements, food coupons. I believe that hyperlocal = hypersocial and not just news within some zipcode, it will not just be ‘about’ people, it will be the means through which people connect locally, a social medium, not a news medium.