/tags/manor/Recent content in Manor on Gromet's Plaza ArchiveHugoen-usSun, 26 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000/stories/2018/08/26/news-agency-encounter/Sun, 26 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000/stories/2018/08/26/news-agency-encounter/<p><em>My 25th story. Make what you will of it. Possibly it’s a milestone. We’ll see.</em></p> <p>Ellen Carstairs was driving from her home to the local news agency in the mountain suburb in which she lived. This small business was one of a dozen which comprised the shopping centre of this remote community which was considered a backwater by the inhabitants of the large urban metropolis to the east. But its locals liked their quiet, tranquil locality and would not have changed it.</p>