From memory, it was a day that filled me with dread, going into school to collect my A level results that would subsequently determine where I would be spending the next part of my life. I didn't quite get the grades I wanted but I did have a fantastic three years in Liverpool making new friends and getting to know the city. I felt sympathy, therefore, when the students poured into the library of Queen Elizabeth College in Darlington yesterday morning to discover their fates.

Fantastic to meet Tania and Phil Alexander at QE Sixth Form College in Darlington last week. The two of them were providing a master class on TV ideas to students in the media department. As is sometimes the case on a job, I'm not aware of the details before I arrive. Phil looked slightly familiar and then I realised that some 30 years prior, he had been the man I used to watching fronting the Raw Power TV rock show. As it used to air at around 2am on a school night I would v