Good news on the crime rate, isn't it?

Nice to see that the number of crimes committed in Britain has almost halved. There has been no Government announcement yet but I am sure there will be otherwise why would the Forensic Science Service be closing three of its seven laboratories.

Unless of course the bosses are cutting costs, axing staff and making the whole shooting match more attractive for privatisation which, on past Government record, will mean the bosses becoming rich men overnight and eventually a critical report on the sale, with all the bite of a rocking horse, produced by the public accounts committee a few years down the line.