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Sting in Tail of Times Children's Poetry Competition

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QECmum Tue 07-Feb-12 16:02:58

AIBU to object to The Times' policy of charging £2 to view their poetry competition site - which includes the shortlisted poems. To me this destroys all the goodwill their brand creates by organising the competition in the first place. The charge might well have been in the fine print when I registered DD's masterpiece, in which case I missed it. Even so... am I the only one who thinks that this is incredibly crass?

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QECmum Wed 08-Feb-12 16:41:45

In fact you can access the shortlist but you can't read the poems!

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ParsleyTheLioness Thu 09-Feb-12 09:40:07

I agree with you. Do you have to pay view Times online though? Is it a continuation of that, hard-nosed though it is... Bit like when your kids are in a school production, then you have to pay to see them, but the cause not as worthy.

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