In 2004-05, just 117 shops were prosecuted for selling cigarettes to children under 16. Some received a conditional discharge. Others were hit with fines of up to 1,000. That's not a lot of money compared with profits on selling cigs for a year.
An ITN team covering the racist killing of Zahid Mubarek by his cellmate took cameras to Feltham Young Offender Institution. To remind viewers what a prison is like, it broadcast footage of a bunch of keys used at the jail.
Big mistake. Security was compromised by showing the keys. Feltham argued that unscrupulous viewers could make copies of the keys. So all 11,000 locks and 3,200 keys are being changed.
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