When I left the Diocese of Lichfield almost three years ago to return to journalism, I took the decision that I would not report on the diocese. It is a rule that I have occasionally broken, when the circumstances are appropriate and when it is clear that there is no conflict of interest. Such instances have included […]
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Backing #TeamGethin as Walsall’s quiet man defends British lightweight title
Walsall boxer Martin Gethin will fight to retain his British lightweight title when he takes on former champion Derry Mathews at the Liverpool Olympia tonight. The 30-year-old challenger told the Liverpool Echo that defeat tonight would result in his retirement; but Walsall’s Quiet Man, Martin Gethin, is equally keen to retain it. “Winning the British […]
Prince William in the IRA
Not a lot of people know this, but Prince William was once a member of the IRA! He has since left the organisation, as BBC Breakfast News reported this morning in this hilarious broadcasting Oops! (If the embedded video doesn’t work, click here to watch it at Moby)
I’m looking for a woman!
Recent matches at the Banks’s Stadium have seen the return of the half-time Crossbar Challenge, where four fans have a chance to win a 2014/15 season ticket simply by hitting the crossbar with a ball kicked from the edge of the D. We’ve had numerous near misses, some very wide misses, plenty of goals and […]
Walsall’s Open Training Session returns!
Dean Smith, Richard O’Kelly, Neil Cutler, Jon Whitney and the rest of the coaching team of Walsall Football Club will be putting the players through their paces at another open training session at the Banks’s Stadium later this month. The club has run this free event several times over the past three seasons and it […]
Metro: ever responsive to readers’ demands
A letter in today’s Metro newspaper castigates the subs for a recent floods-related headline: “They sink it’s all over…” “This is a very stressful time and many in flood-hit areas won’t appreciate being the butt of your front-page pun”, writes Becky Railton from Surrey. The subs clearly didn’t get the memo: their front-page splash today? […]
It’s a cracker! Did you hear about the thief who stole a 125,000 volt live electricity cable?
Did you hear about the thief who stole a 125,000 volt live electricity cable? He was charged! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is the un-official official jokes page. Tomorrow we’ll all be groaning about the appalling cracker jokes. So I thought we need to prepare ourselves. Please share your own jokes in the comments section below. They can […]
2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 2,200 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 4 years to get […]
The all-new singing and dancing Gavin Drake blog
Welcome to my new blog! Actually, it is my old blog, but without the old content. Having moved back into news journalism it is no longer appropriate to maintain a blog in which I espouse my opinions, thoughts and prejudices. Not least, because some of my clients don’t like their freelance (or in house) journalists […]