The news desk at the Portsmouth Evening News received a message for either Cecelia Crumpet or Everard Pimple, the newly formed dynamic-duo reporting team, who had scooped exclusively and were now currently writing up in depth, following their banner headline splash of a week ago, a news item that had all government departments in a spin. Already there had been a flurry of resignations at senior civil-service levels, Mandarins nervously gripping their bottoms, the whiff of government ministerial, laxative-induced reshuffles in the offing, not to mention powerful corporate magnates stunned into eating what was being described by journalists, inaccurately as it transpired, as Humble Pie.
Portsmouth Evening NewsHumble PieThe message reported a civilised furore at the Roman Catholic Convent sc
