Week ending 24th July

Home sweet home award of the week. At last a report tells us where the cheapest houses in Boston are to be found. Perhaps it comes as no surprise that they are in areas such as the notorious Daisy Dale and Revesby Avenue. Imagine the unpleasant surprise for anyone who unsuspectingly buys in areas such as these. Perhaps there should be another list - of places to avoid like the plague!
Balls-up award of the week goes to Boston College. We've accused our local equivalent of MIT of gimmickry before, but can someone please tell us what the point is of giving away free beach balls and then offering £500 in holiday vouchers to whomever photographs themselves in an unusual or funny way with the ball. Like our local police, who strive to avoid anything that involves getting out and about on the beat, Boston College seems keen to embrace whatever it take to avoid improving knowledge.
What's the point award of the week goes to Pam Kenny, better half of Paul who between them more or less comprise the Labour Party in Boston. In a letter to the local paper she pokes and prods at Tory MP Mark Simmonds's expenses claims with niggling references to how the utilities bill for his London residence implies that he is living in a mansion at a time when others are having to tighten their belts. We're non-political here at Boston Eye, and we really can't see what Mrs K is getting at. If it's an attempt to score political points, we don't think it will sweep Mr Kenny into power at the next election.
Most comfortable confinement of the week is created in the Boston Target. It's the interesting condition referred to as "gran-to-be." The Target scoops one or two other awards this week as well. With all the estate agents in Boston, what a shame their front page photo of a couple house hunting couldn't have been taken locally - rather than in London. And the Target also gets our "was the matter with you" award, with seven out of eight wedding reports containing the dreaded couplet in the first sentence. Time was when junior hack assigned the nursery slopes of wedding reports saw it as a challenge to their creativity, and give each newly married couple a story to remember But then they also knew that weddings took place at "register" rather than "registry" offices.

Among the items coming up next week...... why the idea of a part-time Chief Executive is a load of BBI-wash .... And rotten boroughs - the pot calls the kettle black!


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