HOW gratifying to realise the world survives in St Helens. T’ Corporation put out a warning to automobile drivers of delays on the East Lancs Road because of a “collapsed manhole cover�. Their words, not Mr Brocklebank’s, bless ’em, who presumed that word was long dispatched to the history books.
Meantime, last week on the M56, motorists were warned to be aware of pedestrians in the road. Surely not on an afternoon stroll through rambling Cheshire countryside? Pedestrians is the new word for what, Mr Brocklebank hopes, will still be described in straight-talking St Helens as “men at work�.