A 65-year-old Devon woman rang a BBC gardening show to enquire about a mystery plant only to be told it was a cannabis plant. Some other places cannabis plants have been found:
— In 2012/13 British Transport Police found 500 plants growing across the rail network, including one at Hounslow station.
— Under lights in the boiler room of a Streatham primary school, which was alerted by an electricity company concerned at excessive power consumption.
— Outside the Tower of London, apparently planted by pro-drugs activists. Police decided that the campaigners had committed no crime because they had only scattered seeds, not cultivated the plants.
— At Kew Gardens, which has an exhibition this autumn featuring
illegal plants.

In an English parliament

What would an English parliament have looked like after the 2010 general election?

Result: there would have been a Conservative majority of 61 in England.

Where people stay

Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow are the lucky cities this year to benefit from the party conference trade. Which British cities had the most lucrative hotels in 2013?

Source: www.bdo.co.uk

Illegal images

Operation Notarise has identified 25,000 individuals in Britain suspected of viewing child pornographic images online. Some other estimates:
— 51,186 reports of illegal material made to the Internet
Watch Foundation last year.
— 50,000 to 60,000 people in UK trading illegal images through peer-to-peer
websites, according to the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre
(CEOP).
— 26 million images (not all unique) seized by just five police forces between March 2010 and April 2012, according to a freedom of information request by NSPCC.