Dear Amy, please help

Amy Winteridge, 10, wrote a letter to the burglar who robbed her home and asked him why he did it.
The burglar was moved and may now think twice about reoffending.
Can Amy please write one to the MPs and bankers who don't have any problem with ripping us off again and again.

Daytime telly on expenses

Forget the bell tower, at least that was worth claiming for at £5k.
But £2 for a hamburger maker and from Labour MP Phil Hope and £43.56 for three "four piece garlic peelers", from Tory MP James Arbuthnot.
The most shocking aspect about Arbie's claim is that he bought the items from shopping channel QVC.
Daytime telly watcher? Surely not.

Bin Laden shocker

The US has finally caught on to the fact that they should really find Osama Bin Laden.
They think it may improve security. What do you know.
The world's most wanted man has been on the run for eight years living on the Pakistan/Afghanistan border, they think.
Surely they could chuck some special forces in there and root him out? There must be units gagging at the chance to have a go.
Or run a competition to find him?

Space for Nasa

Beardie Branson's spaceship seems to have arrived at just the wrong moment for the private traveller with more money than sense.
It looks great though but it's just not 'of the moment'.
It may be able to help the lads at Nasa though who are undergoing something of a funding crisis  to keep projects like the Hubble telescope going.

Put steelworkers in banks

Steelmaker Corus is halting production at its Teesside Cast Products factory, putting 1,700 people out of work.
Will they be subject to a £850bn government bailout?
Apparently it was justifiable to spend all the money we haven't got on the bankers but the steelworkers are unlikely to get the same treatment. I'm sure there will be a few retraining courses though.
Perhaps they can go into banking.

RIP Richard Todd

Here's a bit of The Dambusters to remind us what a great actor he was.

Beware fire gnomes

Now gnomes are a fire hazard. The evill little so-and-sos were ready to trip up unsuspecting tenants fleeing from their burning homes.
Well done Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council. Taxpayers money well spent.