A Young prisoner in Yorkshire, who tried to commit suicide, has won £575,000 in compensation. The Prison Service has refused to say whether the inmate was claiming his human rights had been breached by being rescued.
Meanwhile, in the greater scheme of such bonkers things, Liverpool (Walton) prisoners were awarded a staggering £2.8m in compo last year - by far the highest total in the UK. Indeed, the Liverpool bill accounted for two thirds of the total UK pay-outs..
Human rights? There should be more talk of human wrongs.

* Meanwhile, Saddam's half brother lost his head while being hanged. Not so many complaints this time from "supporters."
The incompetent Baghdad executioners could have done with old Albert Pierrepoint's table of drops corresponding to body weight. He showed me this once (Albert lived in Southport, and friend of mine was his wife Anne's social worker). No heads became detached in Albert's day - and he saw off more than 400.

* Inflation? Officially 2.7 per cent; feels more like seven per cent to some, depending on how much blatent overspending is going on, and how unrealistic a mortgage has been undertaken. Try the personal inflation calculator on www.statistics.gov.uk. and stop listening to those get-now-pay-later ads designed to entice debts. Come on, how many sofas can you sit on at once?

* Not that Stuart Chambers, chief executive of St Helens based Pilkington will be feeling the pinch: he earns £600,000 in salary and more than £400,000 in bonuses and other benefits (no glass ceiling for Stuey to pass through on the way tot he top).
I mention this because, at the other end of the socio-economic spectrum, The Pilks-inspired St Helens World of Glass is showing an exhibition about the history of coal-mining in the town. Black Gold is designed to "stir memories and pride."
You must be joking.
A somewhat patronising view of one of the nastiest and most dangerous occupations on earth.

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