It's holiday time and I'm posting news this week from our Air b'n'b in Old Hemel, Herts.

I brought a load of reading matter with me and am posting news (and doing other freelance work) from my 'office' in a very upmarket flat.

I've just read the Southport and Formby Champion from cover to cover and credit were credit's due - it took me all of five minutes rather than the minute it usually takes to skim through the West Lancashire edition.

We all know why - it's a lot easier to turn our a decent 'read' in any paper's home town than try to cover somewhere like Ormskirk and Skem from eight or ten miles away; remote reporting like that is not remotely possible...