AND A FEW OTHER THINGS... robDAVIES IT'S THE WAY I SEE IT.

Byline: rob DAVIES 

WHY doesn't anyone run the mile any more?, laments the BBC in a magazine article about how no runner seems to bother trying to break the record.

Oh, the irony from the BBC of all people. No-one runs the mile any more because athletics is totally metric.

But the Beeb certainly could use miles in its programming. Yet time and again presenters use km oblivious to the fact that road signs are in miles and no-one down the pub uses kilometres.

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LL sorts of traditions are hurled out by modern Britain - even the flat metal roofs of caravans. They are being replaced by pitched, tiled versions, as a recent visit to Abersoch proved.

Shame - metal roofs gave a perfect way to deal with noisy fellow caravanners. Wait for darkness, then hurl a few crusts on their roof. By dawn loads of screeching crows would skid and slide all over it giving a very rude awakening.

When we chuck out tradition, bear in mind what we lose along the way.

ESTERDAY was Meat Free Y Monday, according to animal rights organisation Animal Aid which claims that by giving up meat we will save animals' lives and benefit the environment.

Trouble is, farmers will then stop breeding livestock and will go out of business. The best thing the green lobby can do is to persuade mankind to cut the soaring population which has doubled since 1960 and is the root cause of most environmental ills.

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NOTHER year another death during the San Fermin bull runs in the Spanish city of Pamplona.

I ran with the bulls myself as a student in 1991. It was mayhem. Can you imagine what Britain's health and safety brigade would make of it? They don't like carnival floats let alone bulls.

We ought to send them all to Spain. It would be a busman's holiday. And while aboard, they could familiarise themselves with the emergency procedures, and then take great care alighting.

TEACHERS rummaging through pupils' lunchboxes on the prowl for unhealthy snacks with full powers of seizure? I wonder what naughty food is likely to be found? A little chocolate, perhaps. Maybe an iced bun. Oooh and what about a delicious, if calorie packed meat pie? Hungry kids of Denbighshire, a word of advice: If your teachers suddenly start looking plumper, complain. Or resolve to become a teacher yourself. If you can't eat 'em, join 'em.