Once again I am led to wonder if the world has gone completely mad.
Children's TV puppet Basil Brush is at the centre of a bizarre police probe into claims by a group of gipsies that they were racially abused on a BBC programme.
The gipsies allege that an episode of the Basil Brush Show which showed a gipsy woman trying to sell the puppet fox wooden pegs and heather was racially offensive.
They contacted Northamptonshire police who have now approached the BBC over the claims.