I am not a great reader of news papers and TV news is almost always full of bad news but a couple of stories caught my eye in the last couple of days.
The first was the story of the Basking Shark that had got trapped in a fishing net and was almost dead when some divers found her. They cut her free and she swam away, hopefully never to go any where near any of these nylon death traps that litter sea beds all over the world. These nets have, to use a term from nuclear technology, a half life of thousands of years. Long after the effects of Global Warming have wiped out the human race fish and marine animals will be dying because of them.

The second story was about Scotty from Star Trek. He is finally to be Beamed Up. His ashes are to be sent into space where he spent much of his acting career. We were told that Mr Spock came from Vulcan but never where Scotty can from. Cirtainly not Scotland, not with that accent.