As time permits of I have been trawling through old blogs. I have been shocked by
what
Bexley Council used to get up to. For example
hiring bouncers at a cost of £1,320 and getting 27 police officers to frisk
elderly members of the public who wished to get into a Council meeting. Their
excuse was that one of them might attempt to video proceedings. Pressure from
residents has definitely dragged Bexley Council into the 21st century.
However the main reason for doing so was to check that all the outdated stories
that BiB announced in
March 2018 and
June and
July last year had actually gone. With
more than 5,000 blog items and 96,000 internal links hunting down the remnants
of outdated stories except by examining each one has proved to be impossible.
Several pages relating to departed Councillors and outdated stories have been
discovered hiding in plain sight but hugely more cross references to those stories which are embedded
in countless more blogs. Without rewriting the whole site it is impossible to
get rid of them and to simply remove pages would result in too many Page not
Found errors and a server log file large enough to bring the whole site down.
So in the main those pages and their old links must remain but any page that
contains significant detail of Councillors’ ‘offences’ are replaced by a short
explanation of why the item has gone. It might very well confuse new readers who
follow those old links but it’s all that can be done practically.
If anyone doesn't think that is good enough then I am always in listening mode.