FERGIE does it again - £3 million in the red. All blown on a life of Riley - with the odd holiday thrown in.
But it's not the taxpayers to the rescue this time, but Budgie The Helicopter - American-style.
Not that the rest of the royals are a great deal different.
Charles is knocking about with a divorcee who looks old enough to be his mother. Diana is whingeing and whining.
But, for the royals it's quite the norm. And here's poor old me, thinking the Tory Party had cornered the market in sleaze.
No wonder the Aussie premier wants a republic, after studying the antics of our so-called superior lot.
H FOULDS, Gleneagles Avenue, Darwen.
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