Sad, but not entirely unexpected.
That's some hat-trick the editor can boast!
I doubt there's ever been another one in history who can boast being in charge of 3 different angling publications that all went under, can you think of one?
I somehow doubt there will be a fourth chance, do you?
Still, it's such a shame. Dozens of folk who never bought it can now miss it dearly! They will witter endlessly about it on the 'net, dismiss the best publications in Europe as nowt but advertorial rags and place the memory of the Star on a pedastal.
'Eeee lad, dus't tha remember t'Anglin' Star. By 'eck it were reet good.'
Sadly it wasn't. And the facts speak for themselves.
Nicepix, the Green Un is still published every Saturday. Indeed I've written its angling page for the past 15 years since Colin Dyson was terminally ill. How long it will last is anyone's business but if I were in charge of a magazine I'd be moving hell and high water to create a digital subscription version because within 5 years, 10 at the outside we'll all be reading magazines on our ipads or some similar format that we've not even dreamed of yet.
Just think, the Internet was only commercialised in 1995. No-one had a smart phone then! Everything has to change or it will die.
The final AS was pratically the same rag as it was 15 years ago. Same old, same old, which means it was just another dynosaur doomed to extinction.
But life goes on.
