THINK BBC1 has struck gold with The Royle Family. It's absolutely sensational and the best thing I've seen on the telly for years.

How scary must it be for the upper crusts in our society to watch it and see how the other half live.

I love it because I can identify with all the characters, especially the mother-in-law, the lazy daughter, and the dogsbody son who is the only one in the house who can make a cup of tea.

Last week's show was great. Now how often have you sat down for Sunday dinner and wanted to rob the meat off someone's plate. Can you imagine what the upper classes think of that!

FOR my new, no-holds-barred phone-in on City FM, I braved the subject of fidelity - and there doesn't seem to be much of it about.

Marriage has been thrown out the window, nearly everyone's playing around and young people are more promiscuous than ever before.

I'm 53 and I've just been chucked, so there's no much hope for me.

NOW the palava about the minimum wage has settled down, I'd like to know how many people are actually getting it.

I know for a fact that at my local launderette the staff are worse off.

They get a measly £3.60 and hour, but they don't keep their tips any more. I'm sure there are plenty of people out there in restaurants and bars who are in the same boat

ONE thing that has really appalled me this week is the news that babies are being adopted on the internet.

As an adopted child myself, I think this is disgraceful and we should rethink the whole system.

There are thousands of kids in children's homes waiting for a caring family to take them in.

As long as they are with two people who love them and care for them and have their best interests at heart, what does it matter what sex the parents are?

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