Every Wednesday in the Herald Express, our Torquay United correspondent Richard Hughes takes a sideways look at what's going on in the world of the Gulls. This week, he talks non-disclosure agreements and interested parties wanting to buy Torquay United

This week I decided to sign a non-disclosure agreement with myself – just in case I let anything slip that I shouldn’t do. I decided this after talking to Quizmaster Bob in the pub about Torquay’s prospective new owners – you know, the ones we are hoping will save the club after doing all their negotiations behind closed doors.

It’s a weird world these days, in which I am held to a promise not to talk about stuff I might or might not know, which has been told to me in confidence, while someone hammering away on laptop keys in their spare room can chuck anything they want onto social media – and then be completely aghast that traditional media isn’t following it up. I don’t want to sound like an old man – but sometimes I feel like one.

What we do know is there are some very interested parties talking about buying Torquay from Clarke Osborne – and that NDAs have been signed while bank accounts and looked into, paperwork is drawn up, and meetings are........

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