Now boffins have discovered that miners, bent on revenge can cause cancer as well as being, frankly, distasteful.

Docktawh Gillian Keith, speaking from her underground nutrition dome said, "Ever since Mr I.P.Freely of Tunbridge Wells told me about it, I have been trying to cure injecting crack into primary school children with a powerful mix of micronutrients, goji berries and spirulina."

She added "As it turns out injecting crack into primary school children is almost completely identical to cancer, in how it affects the balance of our chakras. And everybody knows that injecting crack into primary school children is mostly caused by miners, bent on revenge, who are known to promote a negative orgone balance in the red layer of the energy rainbow."

Of course liberal-minded multiculturalists will no doubt assume that comparing miners, bent on revenge to carcinogens is "racist", but they can’t deny the simple facts of the case. And the Mail is happy to back Gillian’s words; she gave us a fresh insight into Broken Britain by saying, "Yet again these oafs have destroyed my evening.".