At last, technology is finally bent into shape to provide something actually useful. For all of you central Londoners, whether late-night revelers caught short waiting for the last bus, or bedraggled shoppers weighed down by bags and stuck in a lav-free no-man's land, here is the service for you.

Thanks to a new scheme from Westminster council, simply text "toilet" to 80097 and you shall receive a list of the nearest lavs to you and their opening hours. This is quite frankly a god-send in Sneak's book. Although, having arrived at the firmly padlocked gates to several public conveniences in the last 48 hours, maybe the council needs to think a bit harder about ways to persuade its citizens not to pee in the streets.

04 Dec 2007