Tesco's does it again, for Huntingdon

I had to laugh last week. There was in The Hunts Post, a large article on how Huntingdon was declaring itself to be a "FairTrade" town. We're even in "FairTrade Fortnight" as we speak.

Two pages on - and another article, this time on the shock! horror! customer scandal of Tesco's running out of plastic bags.

The same plastic bags that hang off trees in strips, take at least a thousand years to break down in landfills (if they ever do, the jury's still out on that one), get blown out to sea to suffocate marine wild-life... those parasitic, plastic bags.

So where does Huntingdon stand, exactly, in green issues? Is this the usual bureaucratic right-hand/left hand dysfunction? Or - like the locked public path in town just by Wilkinsons - does private enterprise matter slightly more than common sense, just because money is involved?