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06/04/2006: "A visit to Lidl in Nottingham"

I was struck by the leaflet at the checkout of a Lidl in Nottingham at the weekend. It said that they were withdrawing the sale of diving knives because of the national knife amnesty that's currently taking place.

I'm sorry? Diving knives? This is a supermarket selling cold meat, frozen peas and coleslaw. Has it only just dawned on the management that purchasers of these knives in central Nottingham are probably unlikely to be diving aficionados?

Another strange thing happened on my visit to the store. The lady in front of me in the queue offered me some leaflet about evangelical Christianity, which I politely declined. I know the Lord moves in mysterious ways and all that, but conversions in the Lidl queue? It's just not going to happen, is it? People are just too busy buying knives. To go diving with.