LAST Thursday's meeting of the full county council may have been a historic occasion, but it sure wasn't an exciting one.
The topics on the agenda were stern enough: altering the council's structure; increased pay for members; asylum-seekers.
But the speeches were so protracted I wasn't surprised to see Liberal Democrat veteran Diane Rayner pull out a newspaper and fill in the crossword, after three-and-a-half hours of guff.
The newspaper was The Guardian, naturally.
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