TWO entries have flooded in to my competition asking readers to find famous book titles that reflect speed cameras being turned off in Bucks.

Tessa Viereckl immediately emailed me to say: “How about Hard Times for council after Rye speed camera axed.”

Seeing Tessa based this on the work of Charles Dickens, my favourite author, I was about to award her first prize.

But then Bill Potts, a former Midweek columnist, emailed me in to say: “If you are still looking for classical titles to celebrate the removal of speed cameras from our streets could Jean Paul Sartre’s trilogy The Roads to Freedom be the answer?

“Or could I am a Camera by Christopher Isherwood be the autobiography of a Gatso?

“Or more up-to-date, what about Robert Yates’ Revolutionary Road as a candidate?”

In typical Backchat fashion, I hunted out the cheapest prize I could find and went into our office cupboard to search for discarded old books.

Amazingly (and quite truthfully), the very first I laid my hands on was entitled Signal Red. Surely this was this the autobiography of county council transport chief Val Letheren, the woman who has decided to switch off the Rye camera?

Val and her team are also well known for maintaining a multitude of lights along the London Road in High Wycombe, so surely this was her story.

Sadly not.

Signal Red is a novel based on the Great Train Robbery by Robert Ryan.

The editor’s indecision is final which means I cannot decide which of my two competition entrants, Bill or Tessa, has won.

Therefore, my copy of Signal Red will go to whoever of the two emails me first to claim it.