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Interesting article on page 12 main paper. The headline is 'MPs £750,000 from Union funded by sick miners.' it seems Ian Lavery shadow minister for trade unions has been criticised for accepting almost £1.6m from sick and injured miners. He says he does not recognise the figures! The figures for his wages , pension contributions and other perks are interesting. It seems he may have received a £48,000 pension contribution in one year. He is criticised by fellow Labour MP John Mann. Questioning figures and the details of capital investments in Northumberland could be interesting. Being open to scrutiny should all be included in any audit. I wonder if the local papers will take up such an important story for local information

Ah, yes, it all comes back to me now. Queen Elizabeth fancied an Indian takeaway so Walt thought he'd try out a new short cut by going the other way around. He sailed up to Manhattan, and the silly fellow thought he'd arrived in India. When they inexplicably refused his credit card he had to trade beads for those strange looking chapatis and papadums. Without proper spices, well of course it would all be inedible when he got back! Easy to appreciate why she threw her glass of Coke over him; even the corgis turned their noses up at the stuff! Thus (without the royal endorsement) pizza took a good while to catch on. History is so interesting I don't know why they no longer do the real thing in schools these days.

Sir Walter Raleigh didn't actually bring pizza back from America! He only brought the concept. The actual pizza would never have survived the journey. I thought everybody knew that.

Urban Dictionary has an entry on the humble Greggs savoury http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gregs+dummy And a song has even been dedicated to it. .

Until you eat it Eggy!