Kate Adie-eat your heart out

Brilliant piece by Jim Shelley in the Guardian about the BBC's Huw Edwards and his reporting on the floods

Those poor souls, whose houses were knee deep in sewage and who were without electricity for days, once they saw Huw they knew things were really bad. He's like the modern-day version of the Grim Reaper. He even managed to get to disaster areas such as Gloucestershire well before such inveterate ambulance-chasers as Prince Charles, the prime minister and (surely not) David Cameron. Perhaps Huw thought by appearing in Gloucestershire ("For One Night Only") he could "make a difference" - like King Canute with an autocue.