Opinion

I’m finding it hard to get excited about this Super-8s.

One of rugby league’s worst-kept secrets was confirmed yesterday when John Bateman’s move to the NRL was announced by Wigan.

Life can be messy, can’t it. You think you’ve got things sorted – the kids are all grown and off to uni, the husband’s business is doing well, you’re ready to go back to work – and then the sky falls in on you.

THIS weekend marks the 50th anniversary of “proper” TV in Yorkshire, by which I mean its birth as a self-contained region.

You might think that solving a murder is a bit like cracking a code. As the investigation goes on, all the information comes in, but you can’t make sense of it without that one vital clue – the key to deciphering the code.

Ever wondered how much I earn?

It’s been boiling hot hasn’t it? Muggy, close, even tropical on some days. So what do we do? We stay in and watch TV, that’s what. Especially as Unforgotten (ITV, Sundays, 9pm) is back on our screens.

I met new-boy Chris Hankinson for the first time yesterday.

It’s been 18 years since I last watched a Wigan game without a notepad, pen and laptop in front of me.

On the very day that football said it wasn’t coming home after all, not now, not when there was still daylight left, BBC1 was screening what, on the surface, looked like one of those stiff upper-lipped, starched white crinolines period dramas – one of those where there’s a lot of talking about things that have happened, but you don’t actually see anything happening.

The good news is I don’t need surgery. I’ve been told my injured shoulder should be fine when it’s healed.

The Rugby Football League has revealed it made a loss of more than £2million in 2017. It will be interesting to read the full annual accounts when they are published in full later this year.

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