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.

Making (Up) The News

Just typing away with BBC West Mids News playing on the screen PIP.

Apparently, the people of Ross on Wye are 'worried that they are going to be flooded' because work on a relief tunnel is delayed.

Interesting. I am looking, from my position at a low level in the town, at the works now.

No one asked me, and as far as I know there has been no mention in the local papers of much 'worry'.

Factually there is not much to dispute. The tunnel is there to alleviate flooding risks, which have happened in the past, and about which those affected have every reason to be concerned. Mind you with summer coing the risk is not as much, buy which time the dealy will have been made up.

I just can't quite figure out what the point of this piece, in this manner, was.

Actually, of more interest to me is whether the thing will work, is it value for money, what the reasons for the delay were and who is bearing the costs.

But all I garner is that folk like me, apparently, 'are worried'. Great reporting.