Just a fiver to get into Headingley tomorrow, and free for under 16s. I think I'm up for that, even if it's just in the hope of seeing a few more overs of Flintoff in full swing.

Ard, if you could set aside your prejudice for a moment and accept that in percentage terms the principality of Wales is a tiny part of the BBC's viewing public, you might notice a much more significant factor governing sports coverage. The channels are blatant about promoting via the news those events for which they have the rights. Thus in terms of news coverage, both Formula 1 and test-match cricket have been hugely downgraded by the BBC in recent years. On the other hand the BBC has been much more ready than ITN to give news coverage to the athletics.

Unfortunately this bias is not confined to sport. ITN thinks nothing of running blatant "news trailers" for so-caled exclusives on the Tonight show. The BBC are equally shameless about plugging Panorama etc.