I'm good me. Or, if you're from Thornaby: I'm 'class'.

[Handy translation for southerners 'class' = 'jolly spiffing'].

Yesterday I tweeted about getting a story on the front page of one of our local newspapers. It was a good story, written well by the reporter and put us in a good light.

It was all about a news release I had penned with my own fair hand about the successful prosecution of two people from Leeds who had ignored planning rules and built a 'Berlin wall' in their back garden. The fine and costs totalled £18,000.

It started a few weeks back when our planning enforcement big cheese asked me whether I could help 'get a strong message across'.

'Of course I said, I'll get it as high profile as possible'.

You can imagine how pleased I was when it turned up in the local paper; but I got even more excited when it appeared in today's Daily Telegraph, the Express and on the Press Association wires.

I rang my man from the planning team to tell him how I had delivered what I promised. He thought it was pretty 'class' too.