Two headlines from the Argus this week:
Tuesday 29th May:
Wednesday 30th May:
Slightly spoiled by the fact that, when you actually read the second story it is not about Brighton but Arundel. Even so, the first story does have Sussex Police boasting that “Brighton’s place in the burglary league table reflects the drop in break-ins across Sussex in recent years.”
The Arundel story is made all the better for a comment left on it by a reader which says:
Arundel eh? The Fire station catches fire, the police station gets burgled, bet the peeps in the ambulance station are getting worried…
Priceless.
And finally… the first story also says that:
While the drop in burglaries is good news, there is bad news for other Sussex residents. People living in Hove are the clumsiest in the country, according to the report.
I can only think that all the policemen on duty in Arundel police station had commuted from Hove.
A friend of a friend stole a police car from Scotland Yard once. As she was drunk at the time, naturally she bumped into a couple of other police cars as she left the car park. Her job at the time was in the Home Secretary’s Private Office. She got in the papers…