Please, sir, can I have more?

Only it appears the people responsible for such things are richer than David Bowie!

Imagine that . . . our wee empire - the Shropshire Star and its sister the Express & Star worth more than Ziggy Stardust.

Well, that's what the Times Rich List has revealed anyway.

However, perhaps asking for a pay rise isn't such a good idea when you consider the group's owners, the Graham Family has fallen 110 places in the list.

Maybe even this blog's not such a good idea come to that.

Let's concentrate on other people instead. The richest person in Britain is steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal. No-one knows who he is, so we used a picture of Roman Abramovich instead. He's second.

Richest in the West Midlands is mobile phone giant John Caudwell. He's worth £1.6 billion.

Maybe I'll ask him for a pay rise.

David Burrows is the Shropshire Star's National News Editor. You can comment on his blog in the box below.