Daily Post - the video

Prepare yourselves for one of the biggest changes at the Daily Post in its 151-year history. Your favourite daily paper is getting into video news!
We have acquired some high quality digital video equipment and several of our journalists are being trained in the arts of capturing and editing moving image with sound. It means we will be able to run stories with video on our website.
There's no end to the possibilities - but one I do find daunting. Some editors are appearing "on screen" to give a brief synopsis of the days news "a la Moira Stuart". I have, what is known as a face for radio, so I might find one of my more glamourous colleagues to go in front of camera.
What we are very keen to do is to get readers to send us their videos (no, not those kind, this is a family newspaper). We are upgrading our website soon so we can run several minutes of footage a day - and we are keen to hear from you if you have captured a news event on camera, even if it is just on your phone. When we're ready I will let you know how to send the stuff through.
My new deputy Gregg Fray has kindly agreed to hold the reins over the Bank Holiday weekend. Mrs Irvine is very happy about this as the garden in our lovely new North Wales home appears to be have turned into a little piece of Sumatran rain forest during the recent downpours. At the age of 40 I have reached that point in life where I do appreciate the delights of a lovely garden and delicate flowers but still resent every second I have to spend achieving it, when I could be more gainfully employed watching rugby or football on Sky. I don't think this is a battle I am destined to win.
Wela i chi wythnos nesa - see you next week.