Given that he's reading the thread, perhaps Mr Thomas might explain how it is that – at a time when BBC Yorkshire local radios are being forced into cutting their local output – Radio Derby is expanding and has some dispensation to pour licence fee payers' cash into covering local 'breaking news' in the evening and night-time - when news doesn't happen.

What exactly is this 'programme of wider appeal' that he's got in mind for the people of Derby?