Newlove and Fahy

Garry Newlove has rightly been headline news on BBC News Online during this last week, after he was killed outside his home for challenging a gang of teenagers. There seems to have been a spate of such awful deaths recently, with a young man from Croydon killed only a day or so later for speaking to some kids who's thrown litter into a car.

So, Mr Newlove's death was not the best reason for Warrington to be in the news, but at least it had the top coverage it deserved.

In the interim, Cheshire's Chief Constable, Peter Fahy, made the headlines himself, firstly for leading the investigation into Garry Newlove's murder. But then he created a stir for saying that the legal drinking age should be raised to 21. Fahy also suggested that parents should be held responsible for their unruly teenagers.

So, Cheshire was heavily featured in this week's news. A pity then, that this profile of Chief Constable Fahy was so hard to find on BBC News Online. A Cheshire news page might have solved that problem...