Readers are on song for my topical contest

3:50pm Thursday 10th January 2008

WELL, I went away on my Christmas holidays and quite forgot that I'd launched a topical song contest for readers.

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A rubbish service that is punctual and reliable

8:51am Thursday 3rd January 2008

I THOUGHT I had nailed them at last. I was smug with glee last Friday that after 15 years of trying, I was finally going to have a valid complaint against Wycombe's binmen.

With all this worry about, no wonder I'm miserable

1:21pm Thursday 20th December 2007

SOMETIMES I feel like one of those little old men who wander up and down the High Street with a sign proclaiming: "The end of the world is nigh."

It's only the state that can get our buses out of this state

10:36am Friday 14th December 2007

BUS travel in south Bucks will only ever really improve if national politicians vote for the state to take much tighter control of public transport.

How my idea made hundreds of readers go parking mad

7:07pm Monday 10th December 2007

SOMETIMES in this job you manage to hit a nerve and all hell breaks loose. Two weeks ago that happened when the Bucks Free Press launched a campaign to fight car park increases in the Wycombe district.

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I dreamt I had turned into a giant piggy bank

6:44pm Thursday 29th November 2007

I HAD a terrifying dream the other night. I had morphed into a giant piggy bank and was trapped in the middle of High Wycombe High Street.

What would Seinfeld say?

10:54am Friday 23rd November 2007

I KNOW it's not funny, but the latest saga at Wycombe Hospital put me in mind of an episode from the classic TV comedy Seinfeld.

I'm having a breakdown as all my gadgets conk out at once

4:11pm Friday 16th November 2007

MAYBE it's the electro-magnetic field surrounding my body, but suddenly everything around me is breaking down.

Don't reach for the Star - just click it

1:37pm Friday 9th November 2007

TV NEWS presenter Carol Barnes was left waiting in the pouring rain outside a London telephone booth while I made a call to my newspaper to file my story.

Why are so many drivers still using mobile phones at the wheel?

9:46am Thursday 1st November 2007

DID I dream it, or was the law regarding mobile phones beefed up in February? Didn't it become an offence punishable by a £60 fine and three penalty points?

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Microwave madness turns up the heat on my dining habits

10:33am Friday 26th October 2007

LET me bring you a tale of honesty triumphing over greed and deceit, and of despair and frustration vanquishing short-lived joyful celebrations.

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The joke is on the poor patients of south Bucks

7:09pm Thursday 18th October 2007

THE saga of Wycombe Hospital would be funny if it wasn't so sad.

Don't just cater for Gerrards Cross people in High Wycombe

5:01pm Friday 12th October 2007

I HAVE unashamedly been one of the cheerleaders for the new Eden shopping and leisure centre in High Wycombe and can't wait until it opens in March next year.

We don't differ much from the cavemen

12:56pm Friday 5th October 2007

I WAS delighted to talk to Martin O'Neill again last month when the charismatic football manager returned to Adams Park.

Why are cyclists above the law?

12:00pm Thursday 20th September 2007

IT WAS 7pm on Tuesday this week, but suddenly it seemed like Christmas morning for me as I sat at the traffic lights next to the retail park at Wycombe Marsh.

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I've got a wheely good mouse in the house

4:12pm Wednesday 12th September 2007

WHEN I excitedly told my mother we had mice, she replied soothingly: "Don't worry - you'll have to call in someone to get rid of them."

David Beckham, Harry Potter, Kylie Minogue, Britney Spears and Doctor Who lose out to Princess Diana

4:27pm Wednesday 5th September 2007

I WROTE my best-ever headline last month. It wasn't the funniest, it was not the cleverest; it was just the most successful I have ever penned.

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Weird weather made me go off the deep end

9:09am Friday 31st August 2007

I DROVE hundreds of miles a week ago to try to swim in the sea, but found myself lashed by rain whenever I stepped into the surf thanks to a terrible run of weather during my holidays.

I'm all at sea after meeting readers on the beach

1:14pm Thursday 23rd August 2007

SO THERE I was standing alone and half naked in the sea in Looe in deepest Cornwall, with my pasty white skin covered in goosebumps.

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We're not here to be liked

6:14pm Thursday 9th August 2007

A MAYOR of High Wycombe once turned to me at a function, many years ago, and snapped: "You edit a very nasty newspaper."

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