Sunday, August 07, 2011

Overheards on the radio

Robert Peston’s mum was a speech therapist

Our local radio cannot say the word died; people just pass away – whatever the cause or circumstance.

The county overspent by £2million pounds its budget for snow clearing in the last two years.

A few women go a long way’ – Kate Mosse, founder of the Orange Prize, on why people always overestimate the number of women who have won prizes open to both sexes.