Blooming good news - and blooming idiots!

The home of one of the best flower shows in the country is soon to be the home of one of the biggest garden centres in the country.
Dobbies Garden World is a renowned and well established horticultural business whose centres boast not only a huge array of flowers and plants, but also a farm food hall and deli, a specialist aquatics department, an indoor range including a bath and cook shop and a large restaurant with conservatory.
We have yet to see the finer plans of the proposal, but it can only be 'blooming' good news for the local economy with the creation of a 'bunch' of jobs.
There is hardly anything more satisfying than writing about bungling burglars or would-be 'mastermind' criminals who hardly have two brain cells to rub together.
This week's Southport Visiter is therefore particularly rewarding as we reveal the story of two particularly backward bike thieves.
Attempting to steal a bike from a Birkdale cycle shop, this dumb duo broke the shop window and snatched the first mountain bike they could get their hands on. But as Bonnie and Clyde tried to make their speedy getaway, they realised the error of their ways. Not only did the bike have two flat tyres, it also didn't have any pedals. And to add insult to injury, or maybe to try and avoid it, the pair went back to the shop, risked decapitation by leaning through the broken window to steal ... a cycle helmet!
There's all this and much more in your favourite weekly read - the Southport Visiter.