A colleague's old workplace at the Chorley Citizen newspaper is to be knocked down and converted into a funeral home. What was once a thriving newspaper office at the heart of the community will be replaced by coffins, dead bodies and gravestones.
You honestly couldn't make it up. Technology boffins will argue it is symbolic of where the newspaper industry is going.
They say today's newspapers are yesterday's news and tomorrow's fish and chip wrappers.
They also say everything that is published in a newspaper is already out of date by the time the paper is printed. This paves the way for a string of successful up-to-date community news websites.
For these websites to overtake newspapers they must first understand the basic principles of journalism, learn the contempt of court act and police their forums with an iron fist.
The technology boffins also say that last weeks introduction of the new i-Pad would be the nail in the coffin for hand-held newspapers and will completely outdo them in every use.
But a friend of mine lives in University student halls and when they run out of toilet paper, someone nudges a local newspaper under the door - somehow I don't think there is an app for that.
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