Whilst on the face of it the police actions here seem a little unreasonable…

The mother of two young children killed in a fire at their family home has been marched away by police after trying to lay flowers on her own doorstep. Denise Goldsmith, 29, said she wanted to pay tribute to her sons Lewis, seven, and Taylor, five, who died when a blaze broke out at their house in the coastal town of Eastbourne, Sussex.

The mother was locked out of the property on Saturday afternoon while her children were trapped inside as the flames tore through the house. She returned to the scene yesterday, and witnesses said that she became hysterical when police told her she could not pass a cordon while forensics teams worked at the property.

… I am 100% behind them in this instance.

When did this stupid flower laying nonsense start exactly? These days you can drive down just about any road you care to mention & at exactly the spot Dazza roled his heavily ‘modified’ Vauxhall Nova (silly wheels & an even sillier exhaust pipe) through the hedge you will see a rotting bunch of flowers, wrapped in plastic, tied to the tree that so dramatically proved he was no Lewis Hamilton.

Are spreading bunches of flowers (usually purchased at the nearest petrol station) proof that you really ‘cared’? Why stop there? Given that we now live in multicultural Britain, why not go around beating your head & wailing in a quasi-Middle Eastern fashion? Surely the greater display of grief is proof public of how much you cared? Like so much of our modern society, things have taken a damatic turn a turn for the worse in recent years. Whatever happened to grieving in quietly, in private & with dignity?