The American website who broke the story about him serving in Afghanistan should be ashamed of themselves.

For once, it was great to see the media in this country behaving in a united and responsible way.

The interview with Harry where he described the Queen as being 'cool' with him going to Afghanistan was an absolute classic. Makes me proud.


I was talking to a local trader over the weekend, for the first time since I lost my seat on the council, who was saying how sad they were that the promises of sorting out the parking scheme have meant nothing.

They were lamenting the fact that a series of shops were closing in town, which will decrease the footfall in that area, putting increased pressure on the remaining shops.

Also, that the parking situation is now such a shambles that if it wasn't so serious it would be funny.


Those "campaigners" who got up on the roof of the Houses of Parliament last week did their cause no favours at all.

They were obviously no security risk, but they could have been, and that's the worrying thing.

The trouble is Parliament is a public building. It can never be 100% safe unless they ban everyone from going in - and that goes against the whole point of what it's there for.

Everyone in the country has a right to go and meet their MP in the House of Commons, so obviously the authorities need to do deal with that and do whatever they can to restrict security lapses.

I'm all for peaceful protest, and using imaginative ways of doing it gets good coverage in the media.

I just wish these people would have the guts to put themselves up for election, convince the electorate they are worth voting for, get inside the system and change it from within – where they could make a real difference.

Then they would have something worth shouting about from the rooftops.


Have a good week.


Ian writes his own blog at www.iloveeastbourne.co.uk