I WAS rather pleased with myself on Friday after coming up with a classic Bucks Free Press headline to reflect the fact the speed camera by The Rye on the London Road, High Wycombe, was being switched off.

Yes “Catcher on The Rye to be axed” was my divine inspiration which was a play on words paying tribute to JD Salinger’s great novel.

I decided therefore to come up with more novel novel headlines for speed cameras in Bucks, but try as I might, I couldn’t think of any. Hardy, Dickens, Austin, the Bronte sisters – none of them wrote about Gatsos for some reason. The best my Content Editor could think of was Joseph Heller’s ‘Catch 22’ which makes little sense. You could argue that as road chiefs refuse to release figures, they may very well catch 22 people a day, but it’s a bit thin.

Someone evilly suggested Roald Dahl’s ‘The Twits’ in tribute to the policy of placing these cameras on hills and making us all brake sharply at the last moment.

And I suppose you could extend this to plays and use Shakespeare’s ‘All’s Well that Ends Well’. (That’s Shakespeare the playwright and not the bloke who runs the county council, by the way.)

Anyway, as I am completely stumped, I will give a special Backchat prize to the reader with the best famous book name that reflects speed cameras being turned off.

Write to me at scohen@london.newsquest.co.uk or to Bucks Free Press Midweek, Station Road, High Wycombe, Bucks, HP10 9TY.