In response to customer demand, UK train operator GNER now offers uninterrupted wireless (Wi-Fi) internet connection in every carriage of every passenger train in its fleet. Virgin Trains will soon offer Wi-Fi facilities in its first class compartments and station lounges.

Ed.- Lap-top-bearing passengers will be delighted, but one wonders whether they, GNER or Virgin have any idea what 'offering customers the full Wi-Fi experience' really means. Some train operators offer mobile phone-free compartments for passengers who object to being fried by the waves emitting from others' phones or having to listen to others' often inane conversations. If enough of us write in complaining about the endless, simultaneous key clicks, beeps and fanfares of fifty lap-tops, perhaps they will introduce Wi-Fi-free carriages too - but there will be no escape from the radiation!