‘Sar tan se juda’ is not a new outcry in India. It was first used widely about 5 years ago, when Kamlesh Tiwari of Lucknow gave a statement about Pangbar Mohammad.

It was the Monotype model D keyboard introduced in 1907 which became the standard for printers, with a qwerty typewriter lay and removable keybars which made the keyboard independent of the matrix case arrangement.

Of course, the BEMs had better be real sure the technology of their deadly probes is sufficient to deal with said technological life forms when they finally get there, because an unsuccessful attempt at planetcide is bound to get the victims upset -- and they might come looking for the perpetrators.

Network Rail's East Coast Digital Programme (ECDP) should lead the way for a national digital signalling programme and other major schemes under the new Great British Railways public body.