It won’t surprise many to read that two days shy of its 30th birthday Grange Hill has been axed. Increasingly out of place on BBC1 – in fact, the last series didn’t even graduate from the CBBC channel to terrestrial – it’s perhaps a mercy killing, what with the revamped “The Grange” media centre-led series currently in production at Lime Pictures, awkwardly shoe-horning primary school kids into the format.

Well done Phil Redmond who got in a pre-emptive bitch about the series a couple of weeks back “Mortar boards”, though? Been reading too much Bash Street Kids, Phil?