Didn' t Yorkshire do well at the Olympics?

12th in the Medal Table!

Brilliant map here showing where all our Tyke heros came from.

Rock on Yorkshire!

On Ilkley Moor Wi yer Gold Medals!

Here them all here Capital's Tribute To Yorkshire Gold Medalists by Anna Harding

Good bye Virgin Trains breakfasts

As a travelling barrister, one of the things I most look forward to is the Virgin Trains first class breakfast...which is now going to be no more as First Group storm in with their new franchise.  I will miss the silver service and the brummie/scouse accented food delivery.  I will miss the northern sneer when a customer had the temerity to reject the fry up in favour of smoked salmon and fruit.  I will miss those red racing trains and I shall miss the fact that Richard Branson owned a train set in the same way as I owned a model equivalent when I was 7.  Let's hope Virgin stay in the game and win another franchise...

As Sir Richard said this morning:

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. When will the Department for Transport learn?