Now there's more . . .
Yes, yes, I know, I've not been blogging much recently.
That's down to the small matter of going out and reporting and stuff. Which is great fun. But it's very time-consuming.
But today's package (that's telly-speak for report) was reasonably straightforward, so there's a few minutes spare to witter on here.
Now, if you're looking at this you must be online.
That's jolly good news because it means that you can now see our reports on www.channelm.co.uk/news.
Our website's been updated recently and it's far better. In the past, full programmes were downloaded and it the system had such a bizarre way of listing them, I had no idea where anything was. I doubt many viewers could be bothered to look for them either.
I hope I don't get sacked for saying that.
Anyway, the good news is that the new site's easier to navigate and the stories are listed one by one.
But it's also meant we're able to give you more.
Our stories are supposed to be one minute, 40 seconds long. Sometimes they stray to two minutes.
You can say a lot in two minutes, but not everything you might want to say. If you're really interested in a story, you might be disappointed that there's not more on it.
On the other hand, if the story's as boring as a boring thing with boringness disease (luckily, we're not North West Tonight, so that doesn't happen often) your remote control finger might get itchy and you might get an irresistible urge to switch over to Neighbours or Deal of No Deal.
So our telly stories have to be short and snappy.
But web ones don't. If you can be bothered to search stories out online, the chances are you want to see more than two minutes' worth.
So I've started downloading longer versions, plus yesterday a full interview I did with Cllr Neil Swannick about a scheme the council's started to make developers build more "affordable" housing.
That's here On screen yesterday, it made a minute. There are more than seven minutes' worth of interview online. So you get to hear my stuttery questions. Just look on it as Channel M News Uncut.
Today I did a story about a remarkable 13-year-old boy who's fighting for his local hospital. There's a longer version of the story, with all the comments from Ivan Lewis, the health minister and Bury South MP, in full. Perhaps you'll understand if you watch it why we do edit quite a lot. Take a gander here.
For older reports go to http://www.channelm.co.uk/programmes/index/0/3/channel_m_news.html
Elsewhere, Jess has met the woman who believed she'd cremated her son, only to find he was still alive. An amazing story.