[West Ender]

I despair sometimes. I had a visit from a policeman today, well, I say man - he looked about 19. It seems a neighbour's car was broken into at the weekend (nothing taken from the 10 year old banger) and he was investigating. He actually knocked on my door to ask if I'd seen or heard anything.

Now that's all well and good but, a year ago, someone I know rang the police on a Sunday morning because he had seen a man with a rifle shooting ducks on the local lake and also firing into the surrounding trees. The place is a popular walk, and also a fishing spot, for locals and visitors and the gun-slinger was making it a war-zone. What did the police do? They turned up 3 days later, asked a few questions and disappeared, no follow-up.

Both incidents concern Cheshire Police. One could have been very serious, the other was definitely not. It beggars belief.