My esteemed colleague Mr Stuart Bruce has tagged me (AGAIN) with the 'My week in the media' meme. So I feel obliged to list out what I have been up to so here goes: What I've read To be honest I like to break it up a bit and read several newspapers in one week, so I know what's going on in the various publications but the ones I read regularly are The Times, Yorkshire Post, Metro, Yorkshire Evening Post, The Harrogate Herald and The Sun (due to the sport section). Magazines that I enjoy ...

I celebrated the new year in the Lake District with my wife, Jacob and several of my friends. We hired a beautiful traditional cottage in Eskdale, (about an hour from Ambleside) which slept eight people. It  was a fantastic looking building with low ceilings, an outside toilet  - also had an indoor one btw - and a lovely coal fire which managed to keep us all warm and toasty during the long winter evenings. We spent the majority of the nights testing out the latest board games but the overall winner for us was Articulate which is great fun for quick fire ...

Over the last few months I have seen article upon article filling the back pages of the dailies stating that Rafael Benitez's position at Liverpool is about to come to an end. Firstly, I think this is a load of rubbish. OK, so he did have a public spat with the clubs owners Hicks and Gillet but that's because he was keen to ensure the transfer targets he was after could be pursued and secured for January. This is because he wants to do well for the club.I think the new owners have conducted themselves well and they are ...

There was an amusing story kicking about on the news wires yesterday.  Love him or loathe him, former F1 world champion Michael Shumacher is certainly a well known face - albeit quite a wide one too. Anyway, he decided to catch a cab in Bavaria after picking up a new dog - like you do - and asked the driver if he could drive as he was late for a flight back home. The cab driver, who couldn't believe his luck, then had to hold on for dear life as ...