Some statistics

On 17 July, I did some research.

Not terribly scientific - I simply typed in "Chester" on the BBC search engine to see what came up.

The results showed a total of 10 Chester stories since 1 January this year , almost all trivial, such as new arrivals at the zoo. In 2005, the total count was 23 - that's less than two a month. Again, many of these stories were trivial (zoo news, Duke of Westminster's daughter marrying at the cathedral...). Given that we are more than halfway through the year, it's fair to assume our total news count for 2006 will be less than for last year, unless we are unfortunate enough to have a grisly murder here.