Milk Monitor.. I'd love it if the local press covered local traditions every year, (note it is a tradition and NOT a festival. very few people even know about it here in Cornwall) but they don't. Until all this happened there has been hardly any mention and no pics in the papers for years, since Bernie Grant tried to stop it in 1998 when it was found not to be racist. The local press cover very few traditions with the exception of May Day and Flora which get coverage every year. Did you know about it? Do you know about the other Padstow traditions that are kept up each year? have you seen them in the paper? I haven't.

The Merrymakers took their own footage this year as soon as they realised it was being filmed by the police and channel 4 TV to be on the safe side. We all know what photos do, never lie but just wait until I get it on the computer!!! As an after thought, if it was so inflammatory and big news, why didn't Channel 4 news put it out?

Oh how I love to play devils advocate.