Stranger ideas have worked - try Evita and Assassins for starters, but there’s plenty more cut from unpromising cloth and don’t forget that the first words on the programme say ‘BASED ON THE NOVEL ...

The new law will give DOB the legal authority to issue penalties up to $6,000 to property owners every month for keeping the shed up on a public sidewalk. But for the Sykes family, the threat is ...