Chris

On the contrary, on our paper they were a reliable source of tear-jerking human interest stories, without even having to approach the family for a quote.

Then sometimes they really do kick off, I covered one in which two kids died in a fatal house fire caused by fag ends and almost certainly exacerbated by the layabout father removing the batteries from the council-installed smoke alarm because it went off every time his wife fried chips. Their relationship broke up as a result and when the inquest came round they tried to kill each other in the public gallery...