Oh, right. And I suppose you'll be telling me next that someone also crashed into your car and it was all their fault!

You're welcome.

THe whole thing's a set up to prevent Bob Nudd winning anyway.

I'm with my old mate Lommi on this one. The problem with the town centre is that sometimes it is pedestrian, then, at other times, it decides not to be again. Then, just as you think it isn't, it decides that it's going to be again. And so it goes on, and a lot of people have no idea what the heck is going on - especially with road works being added into the equation - that they give up trying to work it out and just drive through anyway.

I think they should either make the place totally pedestrianised or just let traffic through all the time. Personally I'd just pedestrianise it. And get rid of the buses too. One day someone' going to get run over by one of those things just because they're not expecting it to be there.

Which is why he isn't in prison.

They mentioned it on the news. Otherwise, would anyone other than the little old ladies who took cakes to the picket lines have actually noticed?

Sure. Could be. An evil trade run by evil people - people who couldn't give a toss one way or the other what happens to Colin Flett of Baydon. These are the people for whom prison sentences would be appropriate.

What the guy did is wrong. He's been shamed by by. He's been totally humiliated by it. But he hasn't actually done anything to anyone. He hasn't directly harmed children, and he's now, rightly, on a sex offenders list.

I think some perspective is needed here. There's a difference between downloading pictures and actually going out and molesting children. Is there an indication that he will ever molest children? No more than suggesting anyone who downloads pornography is a rapist, surely?

It's all well and good ranting and raving and getting on a moral high-horse about this, but some perspective is needed surely? The guy downloading this stuff may well need watching, as he will now be, but the people uploading the stuff are where resources need to be directed.

Yeah yeah yeah. I know all that. Buy a quarter of hash and you're quite possibly supporting the same thing. Should people be imprisoned for that as well?

Yup. Dirty old bugger without a doubt. Deserves the humiliation. Sticking the guy in prison, however, would be totally pointless other than to make "outraged of Newbury" feel better about his/herself.

Good decision by the judge to apply a bit of common sense.

The most pointless strike since records began. Nobody knows why they went of strike and nobody even cared or noticed. In fact it was a relief not to have to kick a pile of junk mail out of the way as I left for work for a couple of days.

Or at least it would have been if I'd noticed. Which I didn't.

Well I'm clearly not as clever as my smarter relative, because I'm sure the heading of that article says he was "making" child porn, yet as far as I can see there's nothing in the rest of the piece to substantiate that.

In which case, he just downloaded images. A rather sordid thing to be doing I have to admit, but on its own surely not worthy of a custodial sentence. Plus it was mainly low level stuff.

Yup. A bit of a dirty old sod without a doubt, but hardly worth building a new prison for is it? It's not as if he's been outside the school gates waving his todger at the pre-teens after all.