Dearest Gentle Reader, this Friday brings dispatches enough to make the stoutest constitution falter - a court system that returned a predator to his window, a toddler who slipped through a gap in a fence, and one man who apparently decided that the English Channel required his personal intervention, live to camera. Read on, if you dare, for this Author has spared neither the grim nor the grimly absurd.

Dearest Gentle Reader, this Thursday brings with it a most troubling trio - women failed by those sworn to heal them, a village poisoned by the very pans it once cooked in, and a gentleman with a knife making rather free with a boat in the Channel. There is also a government proposal so breathtakingly self-unaware that this Author had to read it twice to be certain it was not satire. You will wish to read every word.