I'm really a bit of a news junkie; I'm always watching the rolling 24 hours news stations, or documentaries, or discussion programmes. I'm able to watch BBC News 24 and Sky News on my Freeview box and CNN, Al Jazeera, ABC, Russia Today and France 24 online.

I don't like this time of year though because the channels are always broadcasting their 'Review of the Year' programmes; in other words, repeats.

On Sky News yesterday they were mentioning all the data that the government has lost this year and I didn't know whether to feel relieved or sad since none of it affects me: I don't have children so I'm not claiming Child Benefit and neither will their medical records have be lost, I'm not claiming a crisis loan from the DSS and I can't drive - so details of my driving test haven't been lost either.