Silence of the mams.

A ten-minute silence for shot dead girls Charlene Ellis and Latisha Shakespeare met in a head on collision last month with another silence, being held at the same time for Milly Dowler.

Family and friends of Milly, real name something totally different, were said to be furious about the double-booking and Amanda’s mother now plans to file a law suit against the organisers of the Birmingham hush-up for taking attention away from their own long-scheduled fingers-on-lips vigil.

Keeping mum

Meanwhile Sarah’s Law – championed by Sarah Payne’s imaginative mother Sara Payne – if approved by the Lords this week will place an outright ban on any British shutting ups unless the words “For Sarah” appear somewhere on the literature, regardless of whether the noiselessness is for George Harrison, Hillsborough or September 11 – the date when Rod Hull & Emu died.

Mum’s the word

It would seem all this fuss being kicked up over who’s been quietening down when and why and what not doesn’t stop just with the mums of murdered schoolgirls. We found a man in Kent who had not uttered a single word since the Queen Mum popped her clogs. When we told him about all the other silences that have been going on he was outraged. “Why can’t they all just stop shutting the fuck up,” he yelled. And then he made us a sandwich.