Dramas in Louth

Main picture: Comedy. I was hijacked as I was passing a pub at lunchtime by these two and their mate for a couple of pints of Black Sheep and much joking.

Extra: Tragedy. This is the house, five minutes walk from ours, where a young mother and her son were murdered last night. The likely culprit has been detained after he injured an off-duty policeman in Hubbards Hills. The road closure on this busy junction plus a caravan jack-knifing on the by-pass guaranteed traffic standstill for hours.