last week, a 19month old kiddie was run over and killed by a van on the public open space that surrounds sarehole mill in Birmingham, which will be very familiar to Tolkien aficionados. the police, authorities and the press are saying very little about the incident, other than a man was arrested for dangerous driving but later released. (an obvious question might be, what was a van doing driving round a public park?) co-incidentally, there's been an incursion of travellers to the parkin recent weeks; they were due to be evicted this weekend, but haven't.