I DON’T really know how to phrase this — I don’t want to annoy anybody or to end up sounding pedantic or silly. Not everybody realises that there is a time-honoured tradition in the newspaper business that one set of people write the articles and another set write the titles and headlines.

LAST SUMMER I got a phone call from a man who lives locally to say that he had picked up the body of an animal that had been killed on the road and he was having an argument with some of his friends about its identification.