Dose of Salts

Cynics and nay-sayers who sneer that Britain's waterways are full of raw sewage will be sneering on the other side of their faces now that the West Midlands has received a healthy infusion of sodium cyanide. Apparently yet another blessing of unregulated entrepreneurialism, the spill has contaminated some twelve miles of canal, and the famously toothless Government watchdog is working itself up to wrap its gums around some serious corporate ankle. Whether anyone will eventually be found responsible, let alone suffer consequences more severe than the price of a few executive lunches, remains to be seen.