They pass through Walsall and on to neighbouring Aldridge where they visit a former foundry that was recently converted - recycled, according to its owners - into the country's largest materials recovery facility(MRF, pronounced merf).

Don't put your homework off to the last minute.

Those who yearn for skyhooks call those who eagerly settle for cranes reductionists, and they can often make reductionism seem philistine and heartless.

Very much in my thoughts is Joe Slowinski, a herpetologist killed a few years earlier by a misidentified juvenile krait, a snake so small that he couldn't tell if the fang had punctured the skin.