Please feel free to bring your own picnic. His name is Alek Bunik, and he is aged 80. He has been in the war zone near to Kosovo, but seems to be unaffected by the possibility of falling a victim of the bombing. He was at Novi Sad recently, and saw missiles going over. That was by 53rd visit and, as far as I'm concerned, I have a job to do - and that's to deliver aid.
Traffic calming measures seem to spring up with regularity all over the town.
The latest area to be affected is near Mark Rutherford School, in Putnoe. This picture, taken last autumn when these had started to appear, shows an example of this along the Embankment. Whether they calm traffic is a matter of debate. My experience is that they have precisely the opposite effect, with people belting along the road to be in front of the vehicle coming the opposite way. Now, angry residents in Spring Road Kempston are fighting back, and have won an important battle in their fight to remove traffic calming down their street - for precisely the same reasons.