Liverpool to Leeds

Kevin Sacre: "we live in a multicultural society and anyone that has attitude that dose not reflect that is a bit of an idiot"

Travelling over the Pennines from Liverpool to Leeds was one of the most splendid two hours and a bit of my life. I’m not sure for the average passenger that it would take as long as it did on the Daily Mirror bus, but for scenery and sheer beauty it is a trip that matches, or even surpasses, the many trips I have made across Australia, America or Aldershot.

Sadly, it rained hard and heavy. Neither Gregg nor I could use our cameras to capture the beauty of it. The team were happy though; we’d just had an excellent visit to the set of the soap opera Hollyoaks. Age may have kicked in, because both Gregg and I were certain we were on the set of Brookside, which for our younger readers was at the time (1982) a magnificently controversial soap opera that involved some of what would eventually become Britain’s finest actors and actresses.

Not only were this new breed of actors good, they were aggressively pushing their credentials as progressives. Kevin Sacre, Anthony Quinlan and Jessica Fox stood in the rain and told us how much they supported "an excellent initiative". Kevin Sucre told us, "I support this campaign because we have to defeat racism and fascism.

"My wife is not English and if the BNP were elected I’d be lost."

She’s a lucky woman. Like a lot of other people. Kevin really cares.