WHEN are you going to retitle your paper The Northern Amos? No column from Mike Amos on a Monday, but I suppose the two on Tuesday make up for that, what with his young 'un (Owen Amos) and his missus (Sharon Griffiths) filling in the bits that Mike can't manage, probably when he's around town sampling a pint or two.

He seems to have got the job pretty well sewn up. I could have sworn it was a big bloke with glasses that delivered our paper the other day. Does the Monopolies Commission know about him?

Phil Robinson, Darlington.