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Maureen Messent

No easy access on Snowdon

HO, ho, ho! So a clutch of Coventry climbers, martial arts experts all, ditched their disabled mate on Snowdon because they found his wheelchair too heavy to cart up with them.Read

Maureen Messent

Terrible TV you can not switch off

I WATCHED The X Factor in mesmerised horror. Any TV this bad is unmissable.Read

Maureen Messent

Drunk student did not intend any disrespect

HOW precious we’re becoming. How easily we get the hump. How we enjoy taking umbrage.Read

Maureen Messent

Tragedy? No, just an addict’s suicide

HOW cheap we’ve made that word “tragedy”.Read

Maureen Messent

Gazza’s ex isn’t helping the cause

I THINK I’d prefer sozzled, incoherent and unlettered Paul Gascoigne to his venomous ex-wife, Sharon.Read

Maureen Messent

Praying for Blanche

SUPERB Maggie Jones who, at 75, delights us Corrie fans as Deidre’s mother Blanche, is said to be fighting for her life after illness struck.Read

Maureen Messent

Ash recovery bugs me

ACTRESS Leslie Ash, she of the modest talent, trout-pout and connubial sex so vigorous that she ended up in hospital wherein she contracted the superbug MRSA, was back on television this week.Read

Maureen Messent

So many taxi cabs for too few fares

I TOOK the ride through our city centre yesterday and, upon my soul, is there a European thoroughfare boasting more charm than Corporation Street, full of trees, bustling shops and an obviously contented populous?Read

Maureen Messent

P-word is awful but can’t we all just grow up?

VISIT our hospitals and you’ll find splendid Pakistani-origin doctors and consultants. Walk through our law courts and you’ll see solicitors and barristers from a similar background.Read

£1m party bad taste gone wild

ON ONE side of our world, in South East Asia, thousands are dead and bereft from a tsunami. We’ve seen the Disaster Emergency Committee’s appeals.Read

Bigotry is wrong in all forms

FIFTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Nadia Eweida has been a pain in the backside for months after taking umbrage at British Airways’ order not to wear a cross at work.Read

Neighbours guilty of a dreadful sin

HOW easy for that coroner to condemn Leicestershire Police for dismissing calls from the tormented mother who later set herself and her mentally-handicapped daughter ablaze in her car.Read

Afghans make bad conscripts

HOW can we not laugh at the confused who advocate the young Afghans in France be returned home to fight the Taliban?Read

Money grabbing Church

FORGET the Anglican Diocese of Coventry if you need practical Christian help.Read

Sarah’s a stunner

FORGET politics for a sec. Read

Don’t buy Servals, moggies need care

AVOID those cash-greedy cat-breeders crossing moggies with fervals – an African wildcat that resembles a cheetah and called a Serval – then selling them for mega-bucks.Read

Nit-picking over erring Baroness

ATTORNEY-General Baroness Scotland made a technical error in employing an illegal immigrant as her housekeeper.Read

You ought to grovel after 'affair' blunder!

DAFT girly pouts and sulks in Sutton Coldfield, a depression at 35,000 feet up that led to the end of an affair – how scrumptious the age of mass communication that allows us to dip in and out of other people’s love lives.Read

Shame of moaning posties

OUR strike-threatening postmen should hang their heads in shame.Read