1.   His life story could have come straight from one of his classic blues songs.

2.   There was something very handy about the way this story had come out.

3.   Christina put a motherly arm around her shoulder, and the whole story came spilling out.

4.   From other Regional Commissioners came stories of mattresses, bed linen and clothing having to be destroyed, so infested were they with evacuated lice.

5.   Yet the popular traditions from which such stories presumably came were not always totally fictitious, and cannot be simply ignored.

6.   Then the mood would grow mellow and the bum stories would come thick and fast.

7.   This time the travel stories came from teenagers themselves.

8.   Along with the astronomical growth in enrollment came horror stories of desperately ill people denied needed treatment.

9.   Although not directly linked, these shocking stories come against a backdrop of fretting over the state of the sport in Canada.

10.   And another story has come along.