There will be no bonfire at this year's Himley bonfire display, near Dudley, reputed to be the biggest fireworks show in the world.

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I think this may prove to be a costly mistake. Aside from the fact that the bonfire is what Guy Fawkes' night is really all about, it also raises another question: if there is no bonfire, why would anybody pay to go in to watch fireworks that you can see just as well from outside the park?

We probably shouldn't be too surprised that Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is the latest literary work to be hit with a 'trigger warning' by woke academics. Given that Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, Emily Bronte's Jane Eyre and even the kids' book Little House on the Praire have all be targeted, it was only a matter of time.

So why does Nottingham University's School of English see fit to warn people about the content of Chaucer's most famous work? Could it be the sexually........

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