Quotes of the day

Both taken from yesterday's Metro...

"Worn and ravaged builders' hands have acted as a stumbling block for fingerprint access control readers in the construction industry. However, all that is about to change thanks to computer technology developed by Warwick University that can identify partial, smudged or 'warped' fingerprints in just seconds. The system, already in use at six major building sites, will also play a role in crime-fighting."

So let that be a lesson to the light-fingered criminal masterminds among you - working in the construction industry is no longer the easy way to avoid detection and justice that you thought it was...

"The spiralling cost of passports coupled with credit crunch-hit 'staycationers' has seen demand for passports fall by more than ten per cent over two years. The decline has been so marked that the Identity and Passport Service has 'loaned' staff to JobCentres."

Now if that's not a marker of the fact that we're in a recession, then I don't know what is.