Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news

Lorna Rooke was working in the NHS Blood and Transplant service when she was sent on a stupid team-building exercise where they filled in a silly questionnaire to find out which Star Wars character they most closely resembled.

Mrs Rooke left the room to take a telephone call, and a colleague filled out the questionnaire on her behalf, and revealed that the answer was Darth Vader.

So far, so predictably stupid. Mrs Rooke decided to sue the NHS, and has just been awarded nearly £29,000 for her hurt feelings.

I can't quite decide which makes me the angriest. That a vital service which is supposed to be perpetually overworked and strapped for cash is wasting precious time and resources on childish quizzes about 1980s sci-fi characters, that the employee in question was so thin-skinned that she couldn't take a bit of........

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