Shedding light on big issues

I don’t want to make light of the situation. I mean, it is glaringly obviously that there is a good story behind the row over the floodlights at the top of the Wrekin.

But it does seem quite funny too. Probably because it doesn’t impact on me.

If I was one of those people who had the light shining through my window I’m sure I would be the first to adopt my best Victor Meldrew voice to complain.

It’s not the situation I find funny, as such, More the reason for the lights. They, along with CCTV cameras, were installed because of the repeated vandalism of the communications tower near the summit of the this famous Shropsire landmark.

It’s that fact that has my gast flabbered. I mean, who the heck walks all the way to the top of the Wrekin - it’s a fair haul after all, just too smash something up? Is it some sort of reflection on the reality TV world we’re now living in - Asbo teen meets Big Brother task, something like that?

If I dragged my sorry excuse for a body up there I wouldn’t have enough energy left to get the lid off my bottle of Lucazade Sport, let alone go on the rampage. Wouldn’t have made a very good Viking, would I?

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