Good Friday, the pagan festival

Just a quick en passant.


The ITV early evening programme which purports to keep us informed of what's going on - ITV national news and Granada Reports - regard Good Friday as a day for interminable reports about people who kick, throw or hit balls for a living.

But that Granada Reports should completely overlook Preston Guild and the Passion, or the significance of Good Friday for Christians, is utterly inexcusable. Perhaps there was an item, but it had to be dropped because they had visuals of smoke rising from a fighter jet crash in Virginia.

Granada Reports. What the eye can't feast itself on didn't happen. And they pretend it's a news programme.