Shock news has filtered through to Natives that Courchevel Enquirer may have already printed its last issue.

After 4 years and over 70 issues this could well be the end for the gossipy reporting style that typified the Enquirer.

Alex Irwin, the publisher, recently announced the bombshell on the Enquirer website. Alex told Natives that the decision "is not yet final", but it looked likely that financial pressures would prevent his return to Courchevel this winter.

The effect could be as devastating for Courchevel season workers as when the Equipe closed, an event that took a full season to recover from.

Although the Enquirer was regularly criticised for printing salacious half-truths and occasional downright lies, its effect in resort was similar to that of 'Heat' or 'OK', in that it was impossible to see a copy without picking it up and flicking through it.

The first issue of the Enquirer in January 1999, promised that it would "Do to respectable journalism what an iceberg did for the Titanic!". In the four years since, the Enquirer has a been a fulcrum, a rock and a endless source of gossip, quizzes, event info and humour for workers in resort. Courchevel would be the worse without it.

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