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The Big Lemon provide a significant element of the Seagulls Travel matchday bus service, of course.

I was tempted to dismiss this story with the observation that it's only a local newspaper. But, even so, it's important that all branches of the media are properly managed.

Does anybody else share my view that there are more important things to do?

Things haven't been the same since they changed the back-pass rule and goalkeepers stopped wearing cloth caps like Jack Charlton does.

I'm inclined to the view that any change in the relationship between nations (in the UK, or Europe, or NATO) will be a bad thing ... simply because it will be ratified by people who haven't got a clue. Don't let them anywhere near the decision.

Indeed. But one of the major downsides of privatisation is that the experts who used to work in the public sector now no longer do so. Having a degree from Oxford or Cambridge is not enough, but it's the basis on which government agencies now recruit their senior staff. What we, the public...

At least she stood up for the Sussex wine industry, making the point that post-Brexit tariffs will price the product out of its major export market.

The last time they rebranded, they changed to Nationwide from The Co-operative Permanent Building Society. Probably a good move, given the bad publicity the Co-operative Movement has recently been enjoying.

Scotland by 28 Wales by 14 England by 7

Fair enough. It just doesn't occur to me to show any interest whatsoever in European competitions, although I once went to see Sevilla play twice in one week, when I was on holiday in Spain.

... which is the form of a team that finishes as champions.

Can you list all those occasions when your team wasn't playing in a European Champions League game?

The point of first class always used to be the fact that, for your money, you got a separate, private compartment that gave occupants the opportunity to hold private business meetings on the way to an important event. I did, however, always enjoy the luxury that those compartments used to offer...

Bankers have a curious relationship with the English language. Words mean different things to them.

... and they chose that day to play cricket.

Indeed not. The Harrison timepieces I am interested in were made by Francis Spring Harrison and his two sons, Francis Harrison and William Harrison, who were watchmakers in Hexham, Northumberland, in the nineteenth century.

What you see is tailored to your own browsing history. I am getting particularly fed up with an advert for eBay that invites me to consider purchasing a pocket watch that was made in the 1880s by my great great grandfather's brother. It doesn't work and isn't worth the £35 that the seller is...

Halbe.

Another of the scare stories that got people to vote for Brexit was, of course, the rumour that staying in the EU meant that the UK would be overwhelmed by millions of Turkish immigrants. I now get the distinct impression that Mr Erdogan has blown any prospects of Turkey achieving EU membership.

Fewer than 90. It could be as low as 85.