Shambles, I am sure that you have previously had letters to newspapers edited. The letters page always carries a disclaimer which says that this can happen to correspondents submissions. Have you carried on in this way with your local press?

When you have something like this - up-front and at the beginning of any correspondence - you have the choice to contribute on this basis or not. You may also expect that such rules would apply equally to all contributors..........

There were no such disclaimers or anonymous censors and all animals were treated as equals - when I started posting here. What was there - was a mutual respect and little or no need for any imposition.

Would you agree that attempts to close and bolt a stable door are of most use when the horse is still present and are best not made by one's fellow horses.

Would you also agree that attempts to contact the originator of a thread's title before the imposition of any change by any anonymous fellow poster is now too 'cumbersome'?