MY dear old thing Ms Pole is getting all a-quiver about the old King Street Coffee House celebrating 40 years as an eaterie.

She has some delusions of grandeur about posing on a red carpet as King Street grinds to a halt to allow the screaming massed hordes to welcome a host of veritable VIPs, boy band members, soap stars and models to the party.

Sadly I fear her invitation, like so many others addressed to Knutsfordians who have sated their appetites, married their betrothed, or held family celebrations in the town’s landmark building, have been ‘lost in the post’.

The Knutsfordian trusts the ‘many key figures from the north west, London and even LA’ attending the #bellebash have a spiffing evening. Ms Pole will have to drink her Hunters Gin elsewhere on Thursday.

Happily the massed hordes enjoying the three-hour closure of King Street for this charity event won’t be ‘caught short’ if they need to spend a penny. Well 20p.

Glory be, the public conveniences on the King Street car park, now wholly owned by Knutsford Town Council and refurbished for just shy of £1 million, have reopened.

The town will be in profit once the five million user mark is reached!

Going out of town, The Knutsfordian, along with thousands of Cheshire folk, was distraught to hear the Round Tower on the A556 has been demolished.

Thankfully, The Knutsfordian notes the driver of the car which crashed into the tower was not badly hurt.

The same cannot be said of the grade two listed tower, the last surviving remnant of the gate lodge to Vale Royal Abbey, as a demolition team flattened the unsafe tower in the early hours of the morning.

The Knutsfordian trusts that the promise made by the Cheshire West and Chester Council to rebuild the tower in all its glory will be kept.

Knutsfordians who are returning to the town from the deep south of Cheshire need this landmark to remind us we are approaching civilisation.

PS Buoyed up by the success of last week’s twitter engagement (I am @TheKnutsfordian) which led to @ace1mum’s question about Knutsford’s share of the £8 million section 106 money being answered, The Knutsfordian repeated the exercise.

This week @SaveTatton asked @TheKnutsfordian “why hasn’t the BeWILDerwood planning application been refused?

How much more money is @CheshireEast spending in support?”

Any answers, Cheshire East councillors and officers?

PPS The Knutsfordian’s regular reader may be expecting a jolly quip about the “foot and mouth” carrying pumpkin seeds. He cannot better the jokes already doing the rounds.