Like used car dealers and lawyers, accountants have always been figures of fun, albeit for radically different reasons.

The used car dealers, hugely unfairly, are portrayed as crooks. The lawyers, with some justification, as shysters and accountants as the epitome of wetness.

A small Flaxmere, Hastings church has been wasting money with full page newspaper advertisements, pressing people to sign a petition urging the government open an Embassy in Israel. Where do I start?