WE have all done or said things in our past that we regret, or are embarrassed by but not many people have made quite as much of a let down of themselves as a certain Labour councillor.

This week tweets have been dug out of the past of a local councillor who has had to face up to something he definitely would have wanted to bury.

I appreciate that Councillor Alan Humphries has apologised for a series of offensive, angry, uneducated tweets and Worcestershire Pride have accepted the apology. I still don't understand why people go on twitter tirades. I am however, happy that people are publicly held to account for language.

The one part of this that really baffles me is the blind cricket element. In 2010 he described international blind cricket as "utter feckless sh**e played by pampered nancy boys." Even in 2010 this is archaic language, and he can't use age as an excuse, there are plenty of people his age who don't say things like 'Nancy boy.'

I just can't wrap my head around it. Why would anyone want to attack blind cricket, or any disabled sport? What has it done to hurt anyone? I can't think of anything more benign and harmless and therefore bizarre to strike anger into a person. You must have something seriously wrong with you.

We deal with offensive, derogatory online commentary often in our industry. When we post stories online we often have to monitor the comments section, (although we cannot do this 24/7) as there are always certain people who don't care what they write or how stupid they make themselves look. However, I tend to pay the 'trolls' little thought and assume they are sad, lonely and miserable people with no other way to make even a small dent in the world as their lives are so insignificant, and making a 'shocking' comment on a website is a way of giving themselves a momentary flash of what it might be like to be relevant to someone.

Usually, no one cares but sometimes online language can be very hurtful to individuals or certain groups of people, so therefore it is positive to see that we are deterring people from typing these things by taking it seriously, while still upholding everyone's right to take part in conversations.