Nigel Anderson's Profile

As a lad in Bratfudt (before I learnt that words were spelt posh, and not as they sounded), it was only the 'T&A' and the 'BBC' that were important enough to be known by their initials. Even the Manchester Guardian and the Daily Herald were only abbreviated to the second word of their titles.

One of the reporters for the Telegraph and Argus was a family friend, and I remember overhearing a conversation bertween him and a couple of my uncles with whom he had been in school in which he described relations between his colleagues and their national counterparts: "We are ferrets, who flush the rabbits out into the sights of the guns".

Long may such ferreting continue, whether it results in sightings on the product of dead trees or on flat screens.