Strewth!
This is at least the third time The Herald has provided an un-critical platform for John Beynon to carp about the event that will eventually be known to students of
local history as 'Black Sunday', or 'The Bridge Street Slaughter of
the Flower Basket Innocents', in its pages: ostensibly to demonstrate
the officious un-reason of Parking Enforcement Officers.
This time we get a bit of long overdue
detail. Seems the users of some illegally parked vehicles were asked to move their illegally parked
vehicles. Seems it was pointed out to the motorised vehicle users that
there were legitimate and free parking spaces available ten yards away from
where they had chosen to park illegally, and the suggestion made they
move their vehicles into those. No tickets were issued. Hardly the stuff of nightmares.
Six months on from that fateful summer morning, the Morpeth Herald grinds its axe.
Not so much flogging a dead horse as
flogging no horse.
Post-traumatic-stress counselling for
John Beynon, and a change of editorial direction at the Herald might
give us all a much deserved break.
