Another active front brought gusts and rain yesterday, clearing eastwards to leave most of us with a dry, bright day.

So they call and call and call: in the darkness, in the mist, across the long bright day and into the dusk.

On this bright day the world of this melancholy memoir seems far away.

But we won't get picky on such a bright day.

Bundled together in this entertaining little book, their reports depict the city in the turmoil of bright day and the bedlam of dreadful night.