It was rather a sad day today as I was joined for the last time by Frances Clamp. Frances has been with me on this show for the last 3 years but is now in the midst of writing a new book about Southend-on-Sea during the First World war, which unsurprisingly is taking up rather a lot of her time.

For the final show today Frances took a nostalgic look at some of the topics she has covered during the past around 150 episodes. So for the final time take a listen to what Frances recalled from this period: – Bygones 29th October

It goes without saying that I am going to miss Frances and her weekly contributions and all of us at Phoenix wish her well with her new project.

In the first hour of today’s show we reported on the cat just caught drug smuggling in a prison in Mold0va. It seems that the cat had a regular point of entry to get the drugs into the jail – a pot hole, perhaps!

Right I’ll see you again next week, but I’m afraid to say without Frances.

All the best,

Scott