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StopPress is the monthly magazine produced by LAL Torbay for our students. The magazine is produced in-house in black-and-white. Each edition of StopPress contains a mix of articles which are designed to inform and entertain.
StopPress was started in 2006 by Andy Tyrrell & Tristram Grevatt. It replaced an earlier incarnation of the students' magazine which was simply called the "Torbay Language Centre Student's Magazine", and which was produced intermittently by Andy Tyrrell in 2005. With the working title of "ChinWag", the 16-page A4 format was developed to offer a smart and flexible layout that could be used as a base for each edition. The magazine was designed to follow a traditional magazine layout, complete with advertising, and to be as rich with photographs as the laser printing permits.
The new magazine was launched in October 2006 with the new title of StopPress. The print run disappeared quickly, and the magazine was assumed to be a success!
Each edition features a guide to somewhere our students can visit, either the life story of a famous Briton or an interview with one of our staff, and a mix of articles about British traditions, recipes, puzzles, language games and other items we hope will be of interest; although our audience is mainly our students, we hope that we can dig up the odd nugget of information previously unknown to our staff and host families too. We also publish news from LAL Torbay and our sister schools, and a guide to events in Torbay for the coming month.
Articles for StopPress are written by staff and students, and we always welcome submissions.
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