Diary would like to publicly thank social media guru and all-round good egg Helen Reynolds for spotting the mother of all local government revelations in the Mirror newspaper.

Buried among a tabloid tale of a woman in East Yorkshire claiming she had seen an eight-foot tall and fanged werewolf (known locally as ‘Old Stinker'), was the following gem of a sentence: ‘Hull City Council has said it has no written policy on dealing with werewolves.'