for the ten month investigation named
after the river in North West England.
There is no obvious link between cash for
honours and the River Ribble, beyond it's
murky depths, scores of sources, endless
twists and turns and it's potential to net big fish.
Such was the introduction from BBC's Newsnight * in the ongoing saga of the "Cash For Honours"
investigation that continues to plague Tony Blair.
Recently revealed details of a second police interview gives Blair the dubious honour of being the
only sitting Prime Minister to be interviewed by the police.
Local residents of the Ribble Valley (right) took to the streets
to protest against this unwarranted and slanderous association
of their fair river** with the woes of the PM.
A spokesman for the group was quoted as saying,
"Bye 'eck, it's shocking, shocking I tells thi, weren't it bad enough that police in them days took away our great great grannies and 'ung 'em and burnt em at'stake, and now this. Well it won't do, it just won't do.
Developing.
*Limited timescale for viewing.
** Nice photo gallery of various parts of England
For my American readers.
Update 0930 GMT.
But he added: "I am not going to beg for my character in front of anyone. People can make up their own mind about me."
Steady on now lad, Pride cometh before before the old proverbial.
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