[Tin Monkey]

I think we need to put all this into perspective and not get carried away. Knife crimes are hitting the headlines at the moment, but it's not as if they haven't always been with us.

On Radio 4 today they were saying that back in the 1960s ('68 I think), knife crime was so bad that the singer Frankie Vaughan met with 4 Glasgow gangs to try to broker peace and an amnesty on knives.

Yes it's making the news at the moment and we're all rightly concerned, but in a week or two there'll be another thing to be very concerned about.