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• How exactly does Age Concern normally receive its donations? Michael Parks accidentally left £1,400 in cash in an old coat he gave one of its shops. Rather than hanging on to see if anyone claimed the money back, the charity banked the money and then took legal advice about whether it could keep it. The charity's trustees are deciding whether to return the cash. Good job he didn't accidentally leave anything else behind -- his house keys, perhaps.

• Given the government's obsession with law and order, magistrates could be forgiven for thinking the home secretary wants more people locked up. Martin Narey, head of the prisons and probation service, said it was "pretty dumbfounded" when told David Blunkett did not want people sent to prison. The answer: show the service film clips of Blunkett saying this in the Commons. Well it must be what he meant if he said it there...

• Following the news that British youngsters are the top drug-takers in Europe come two initiatives to tackle the problem. Camden Council has decided that a nine-hole crazy golf course on the drug-blighted Clarence Way council estate will improve things. The Duchess of Northumberland, meanwhile, has offered to start growing cannabis and coca plants herself, alongside magic mushrooms and opium poppies, and with the full backing of the local crime prevention unit. However, hers is not a response to increasing demand but part of a drugs education project at the first ever poison garden. Life truly is different in the country.

• A new service from sexual health charity Brook risks the intrusion of the mobile phone into ever more delicate areas. Young people can now get instant advice on contraception, just by texting. Vibrating phones take on a whole new meaning.