Shred from cover to cover

I no longer religiously buy a Sunday paper, but I'll occasionally succumb to the Sunday Times or the Sunday Post. When I was a kid we would get The Observer, and Dad would never let anyone read any of the paper's many sections until he'd read them first.

Smith the shred

This was Cholmondeley’s favourite trick - he loved to scratch at paper - the more important the better. My precious copy of 2000AD No 1 from 1977 (how geeky am I?) was destroyed by him a few years ago. His favourite stratching post was a pile of National Geographics - those yellow spines were so tempting. And don’t get me started on the subject of him and woodchip wallpaper.