... reach for press officer. TYes, in an all-too-rare instance of common sense, even the Criminal Protection Service took one look at Hampshire Police's attempt to arrest a woman for keeping a cricket ball that local yobs kept hitting into her garden, and ran screaming from it. But never underestimate the capability of my local farce to dig themselves in that bit deeper. They visited Mrs. Cole to break the news to her - and took a press officer, who bullied her into signing a statement clearing the Hopeless Prats of complicity. I only wish she had stuck it somewhere that would make said press officer talk even funnier!
