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T-Shirt Control

...First they came for our guns, then our kitchen knives:

A&E doctors are calling for a ban on long pointed kitchen knives to reduce deaths from stabbing.

A team from West Middlesex University Hospital said violent crime is on the increase - and kitchen knives are used in as many as half of all stabbings.

They argued many assaults are committed impulsively, prompted by alcohol and drugs, and a kitchen knife often makes an all too available weapon.

The research is published in the British Medical Journal.

The researchers said there was no reason for long pointed knives to be publicly available at all.

Since this will probably have no effect on crime in England, the next step is t-shirt control:

STEREOPHONICS frontman Kelly Jones has spoken of his confusion after being stopped from boarding a flight at Heathrow Airport - because the gun print on his T-shirt sparked a security alert.

The Cwmaman-born singer was celebrating yesterday after the band won 10th best album of all time for Performance & Cocktails in a UK-wide poll.

But it also emerged Jones was taken aside by over-vigilant officials after his clothes set off a metal detector.

"It was a strange one. I walked through the metal detectors and took off my belt and phone, but my boots were left beeping," he said.

And Jones was left amazed when told his T-shirt, which showed a pistol, was unsuitable for flying in.

"My T-shirt distracted the guy and he told me that I wasn't supposed to wear it. It had a painting of a gun on it and he started claiming that if the T-shirt was embossed it could be used as something.

"But surely it was more of a concern that my boots were beeping and he hadn't even asked me to take my shoes off!"