Read all about it...or not

You may remember that the Cambridge Evening News was making me cross last Friday due to the nature of their coverage of the Rendell Facebook business.

It therefore amused me to note that the circulation of everybody's favourite family paper (sic) fell a whopping seven per cent in the period July - December 2007, from 28,000ish to 26,000ish. Apparently the people of Cambridge aren't all that interested in the sensationalist bollocks that accounts for 95 per cent of their output these days. Hopefully this downward trend will continue and force some serious editorial changes at Evening News HQ.

Also making me chuckle is the flimiest excuse I ever heard, relating to unwanted striker Dan Chillingworth's continued injury problems. The latest Treatment Room update says: "Unfortunately the specialist who is looking after Dan Chillingworth's ankle injury has just returned from a skiing holiday with a broken wrist, so there won't be any further developments for a couple of weeks."

So, look forward to reading the following in a couple of weeks: "Unfortunately Chilli's return to action has been delayed by a lack of clean socks. This is due to the kitman having time off to mourn the loss of his wifes' cousins' hamster. We expect him to return to work in a month or so, and there will be further developments then."