Sorry, I’m British by Ben Crystal and Adam Russ (One World, £9.99) (From The Northern Echo)

Sorry, I’m British by Ben Crystal and Adam Russ (One World, £9.99)

2:38pm Wednesday 6th July 2011 in Non-Fiction By Harry Mead, Columnist

CARTOONS – eg hikers face a hoarding saying A Warm Welcome to Yorkshire.

Like It or Lump It – set the tone of this “insider’s guide to Britain from A-Z”, That’s from Allotments to Zebra Crossings, via such traditional or contemporary features as cricket, chavs, fish ‘n’ chips (now merely the fifth most popular takeaway) and SAGA.

The Angel of the North is honoured not least for restoring to Hartlepool – where it was manufactured – the pride lost in the infamous monkey-hanging debacle.

Happily, an entry on Newspapers doesn’t alight on the word that most who toil in the trade today regard as most apt: “disappearing”.