IF the BBC says there’s life yet in TV’s Last of the Summer Wine, they are going a funny way about showing it.

No wonder that producer and director Alan J W Bell is quitting after making 27 series of the programme.

I’m tired of the lot of them, he says about the Beeb’s executives. So are we.

Within a short time of dismissing the Examiner’s exclusive story about Summer Wine being axed, the BBC turns round and demonstrates that it cannot decide the future of the series.

It’s time to come up with positive words about whether or not any further episodes are to be filmed.

Millions of people are clear – they love Last of the Summer Wine and want it to continue.