Questions are being asked

I love our local news, mainly because it serves to remind me just how lucky we are to be in this neck of the woods.

Well, except for the sorry excuse of news reporting we have here.

Pretty much top of the tree today we had the major story of the mother whose moppet ended up in the drink feeding the Swans on the River Severn.

So far, so newsworthy, if only to highlight the various local good Samaritans who fished her out.

What got me was the po-faced pursuit of the notion that the council should now pursue better barriers to prevent this happening in future. So questions are being asked and reports drawn up.

Mother. Daughter. River. Swans. Gravity. Parental responsibility. Common sense.

But good on our intrepid media to see this as a critical subject for investigation.