Bride Wanted Dead Or Alive

China has come a long way - but maybe not far enough. Want the proof?They dig up corpses to marry them to their dead relatives - ensuring them a partner in the afterlife. The fresher the corpse, the more attractive they are. Skeletons need not apply.

It's Match.com gone mad. Offer up the recently deceased and you could be looking at £2,000.

We all knew women were in short supply in China after their disastrous one child policy lead to too many boys, unwanted girls being dumped in the gutter. 

Men are dying without ever knowing a woman, so gangs prepared to do the dirty deed are raking in big money, so that the rotting pair can be buried together, problem solved. It's not legal and eleven grave robbers in Shandong province are looking at three years in jail. Who said romance is dead!

Roll A Newspaper To Fight Ebola

There's no underestimating the imbecility of the British public is there? Sometimes it's jaw-dropping how stupid people can be. Take the pensioner who came into the cafe my daughter works in on Saturdays. 

Seeing the odd fly, this daft bat said: "You should stop those flies coming in with all that ebola about."

What! She knows there is this terrible, devastating disease called ebola - and absolutely nothing else about it.

Brave journalists walk the line in Sierra Leone and Liberia, telling us via our screens every night of the horrific toll this is taking on poor Africans living in appalling conditions. Their streets run with sewage. There will be a few flies about.

Who could possibly see their courage and not realise that contact with the ill, and especially the dead, is what causes the contagion to spread?The heroic grave diggers in their plastic suits running with sweat do their job, often unpaid. Flies are the least of their problems.

Despair at the ignorance of the rest of us must surely come next.

NHS Waste - Blame the Patients

Patients - they are the worst thing about hospitals. It's not poor care, though that still happens, or waiting times, but the people who take up the space. 

Harsh? Not really. A recent visit to A&E was a traumatic affair, not just because of an urgent need to be admitted. A huge, scary guy was ranting and raving, rampaging about and crashing into walls. A kind nurse put us in a side room for safety, saying: " He has been in here every night for the past week doing the same thing and every time he gets treated like royalty."

Shocking - but even more so was the discovery that Mad Dog, as we called him, was given the next bed to my sick son. He continued to rage and abuse. On the other side was drug addict Dean, in with a sore foot and still there well after he should have been sent home. He kept finding symptoms. After ten days we left him to it.

Yes the system needs reform. Today the Government admits to mistakes. There is waste on a grand scale, but with patients like this, who's to blame?