Complaints

Great. I've been receiving anonymous hate mail from BNP-sympathisers all week accusing me of being a lefty liberal, and now we've had a complaint from the organisers of a Muslim march held in Redhill on Sunday making the exact opposite accusation.

Just to reiterate: we turned away BNP adverts in the Croydon Advertiser and other titles as I felt uncomfortable with their material.

We covered the controversy surrounding a Muslim march in Redhill on Easter Sunday in the Surrey Mirror because we're a newspaper and that's what we're supposed to do.

And it's not just racial issues which are sparking the complaints. There's a bizarre email flying around which is going on - in a rather odd fashion - about reporting of crime in the local media. Again.

The email itself was strange enough, but the sender's decision to copy in 28 additional people - including Labour leader Tony Newman, the BBC and various others -was even stranger. I bet they were delighted to have that land in their inbox.

And when I made the mistake of replying to it, THAT was copied in to all and sundry too.

In a final email, the sender warned: "Can you not hear the sound of an army? Can you not see the flag flying in the distance and can you not feel a stirring in the air!!! What I hear you ask is this army called ? It's called commonsense and its on the march!" I'll keep an eye out.

Turning away from the kind of complaints that cast a cloud over my working day, and last week I was saying how we decided against holding certain stories back from our Good Friday edition.

Well, more fool us because this week was a real struggle, particularly when we found we had four empty pages to fill half an hour past deadline owing to a cock-up somewhere in the system.