Why AWOL?
As readers will hopefully have noticed, over the last few months we have been revamping the site, trying to make it more easily accessible and simpler to navigate. In the process, we have come to the realisation that nowhere on the site is any explanation of our name, or how it came to be, so this short post is to fill that hole. As outlined here, the AWOL newspaper was launched in 2008, and the name and concept was the idea of Colin Devonshire, whose wife Boom was in charge…