Everyone will be glad to know that John Smeaton, who was involved in preventing the Glasgow Airport bombers from completing their task, has now woken from a coma resulting from a life-threatening athsma attack. He has been in the Royal Alexandra hospital in his home town of Paisley since the attack two weeks ago.

He opened his eyes yesterday and was able to recognise his family and his fiancee, Christy MacPhedran. His father, Iain Smeaton, says that the family are delighted by his progress. ‘We are really happy that he has come through but he is still not out of the woods yet and has a long way to go. He can’t communicate verbally but he can communicate by blinking his eyelids and looking at us and there’s just a normal progression.’

As we said in our earlier report on Mr Smeaton’s illness, a straightforward man was used as a pawn in the publicity machine of a desperate Labour administration in Westminster and was the subject of bitter attacks by colleagues resentful of the unlooked for celebrity London loaded upon him. These people, from Gordon Brown downwards will have reason to be relieved that Mr Smeaton is making some modest progress.

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