"Snipers could soon snuff out smoking"

Let's put it down to bad timing.

This week's issue of the Luton Herald & Post (published on Thursday) describes in detail how people smoking on the streets of Luton should be shot by a "squad of licensed snipers" to save the Health Service the cost of looking after them in later years.

Oddly enough I can't find the article, by columnist Alan Dee, online (perhaps it's been removed following the news from Norway), but I've seen the digital edition.

Let's not be too po-faced about this but it's safe to say we haven't heard the last of it. Watch this space.