....I just scrapped my original work of art & substituted it with the tabloid version.

You never know, not about getting a letter published, but about getting someone interested in this trip. Newspapers like The Bristol Evening News are where young journalists with ambition to make it to Fleet St often start out They need  a break though, something that will give them street cred as investigative journalists.

Come on ,whoever you are who wrote that article ; get into Colston Hall & ask the motivational speaker a few questions about where he got his money from, why the org which invited him is an educational charity in the UK, but a church in the US ,& so on.

It's easy peasy these days doing the research.