When PP was first created, we did have a seperate section for Paphos News & Other News but some of the management team thought we had too many forums compared to the amount of posters/members, so we condensed quite a few forums into each other, thus 'News'
Now I don't take pleasure in moving members posts as I have other things I could be getting on with but I personally wouldn't want the 'Day 2 Day Life' forum getting clogged up with member just posting 'news' topics all the time instead of actually posting something written in their own hand as that's why we have a 'News' forum to put these in
The 'Day 2 Day Life' forum is just that, for things that happen in members day 2 day life, not just Paphos related topics, its for member to contribute what they've been up too & ask for help & assistance during the day & as we have member from a far greater base than just Paphos, it's not much use otherwise
Stuart makes a point when he says if member want to read the news, why not go to a dedictated news site, while that being a good suggestion, forums are for the passing of information between members, that why we have seperate forums for different topics ie News, Sports, Places of Interest, Build Guide etc etc so that any member who has some information they feel may be benificial to others, they can post it in the relevant forum
As for JGG view that more member look at the 'Day 2 Day Life' for than they do the 'News' forum, well this is relative to the amount of posts in each forum too & that the 'Day 2 Day Life' forum is at the top of the page & a lot of people don't even bother looking at any other forum due to lazyness of scrolling down the page
Its also a fact that members like to comment of topics which that don't on a 'News' article, they just read it & leave, go to the 'News' forum & check out how many time each new article has been read & you'll see its quite a lot
Just remember one thing, if the news starts to appear in the 'Day 2 Day Life' forum, it won't be long before other members will want other sections included too, like 'Jokes' 'Sport' etc etc
Then we might as well not have a forum, just a collection of topics under one heading
This is only MY opinion btw