Request stops that is, now known as Paul Merton's Secret Stations (Channel 4, Sunday).
My age allows me to be crotchety, so to all you newspapers, networks, pundits and pollsters, just one request: Stop categorizing me.
No one wants to repeat the recent embarrassment when a Spanish warship, at America's request, stopped a North Korean vessel carrying a hidden cargo of missiles (bound for Yemen, it turned out).
Finally, the request stopped at a hapless underling, standing wide-eyed by a photocopier as a colleague asked, "Have you ever been to -- Calgary?" Calgarians complained and the hotel chain pulled the commercial.
This small train makes an unforgettable journey along the rocky coastline between Calvi and Île Rousse, calling at 15 stations, all of which are request stops only (Apr-Oct; £5).
The request stopped just shy of telling me that if I didn't forward the message, my right arm would fall off, and I would develop an incurable social disease.
This week, grassroots leaders from the immigrant rights movement went to several D.C. organizations with a simple request: Stop negotiating with the White House on behalf of directly impacted immigrant communities.
If you cannot find it, enter "Stop Payment" in the search box and follow the links to "Request Stop Payment".
Did requests stop coming or did he start refusing them?
Rail (nationalrail.co.uk) to Penhelig Halt (request stop) or Aberdyfi Station.
