Ray Bridges, trustee of Dartmouth and District Indoor Pool Trust, writes: This is a brief note to say thank you to Dartmouth Chronicle reporters Karen Perrow and Steve Peacock for supporting the pool project with well-informed and ­accurate reporting over the past few weeks. The paper helped to generate the large number of demonstrators who made an effective protest at South Hams Council's Follaton House headquarters, which subsequently had a successful outcome for the pool. I hope they can ignore the inaccurate and misleading observations about themselves and the Chronicle written elsewhere. The story in the Friday, June 19 issue was, of course, written before the executive meeting was held on Thursday, June 18 because of the early morning press deadline. The piece did not contain a picture of the trustees celebrating on the steps for the same reason. Steve was at the June 18 meeting and took the photograph of the trustees for the June 26 edition. I keep being congratulated by people who saw the front-page story in last Friday's paper. I know that the local press has come under a lot of pressure lately, largely because of technology and young people not developing the reading habit, and advertisers are using the internet to reach them, but I believe that local papers are the lifeblood of successful communities and that the pendulum will swing back – just keep going the way you are. Technology such as Google is great for encyclopaedic information, but it can't tell you broadly what's going on in your local community each week. The Dartmouth Chronicle can.