It seems strange that, for such a small island and with an abundance of seaweed drifting onto our shores daily, we don’t make more use of this untapped food here in the UK.

It’s strange that seaweed has been part of a diet somewhere in the world since prehistoric times and around 145 species of it are still eaten and yet, for some reason, this naturally produced food is shunned by the western world.

I know that a lot of you out there are probably not too familiar with or indeed interested in Hitler’s deputy and I suspect I probably would have felt exactly the same if it hadn’t been for my father’s “connection”.

It must be every parent’s nightmare – their cherished teenage son is tried and convicted of murder. Back in 1921 Harold Jones was a 15 year old, hard working shop assistant in the Welsh mining town of Abertillery so when he was arrested for the murder of two young girls, it shook the close-knit community to the core.