Shark attacks are heating up

It doesn't help that, while shark numbers are on the decline, the numbers of humans in the water is going up, so the amount of shark attacks are unchanged.

In news that will be somewhat concerning to readers living on the colder coastlines, climate change is changing where shark attacks happen.

It'll do this by heating up the oceans, making previously inhospitable stretches of water a perfect habitat for sharks.

This is the second episode in a three-part series that looks at British prisons.

The focus on this episode is Whitemoor, which was opened in 1992 and tagged as an "escape-proof prison".

Now, in the same vein as referring to the Titanic as "unsinkable", that phrase is obviously going to come back and bite you on the bum.

Especially when you send a bunch of prisoners there who have a reputation for escaping. As if that's going to end well.

And so, just two years later, a bunch of crims escaped. Granted, they were only free for a few minutes before being captured but they still managed to escape from a supposedly escape-proof prison.

The series is well worth watching. There's very little contemporary comment from prison staff or the government; instead, what the show offers are interviews with those ex-cons who lived inside its walls.

The show is all the better for it because, few people aside from ex-prisoners are better placed to talk about what goes on in a prison.

For a certain generation the "haunted" house in Amityville, Long Island, is one of the most recognisable houses in the world.

That's partially because it is one ugly-looking house. And oddly-designed too; who builds a house on a waterway and then puts the balcony on the opposite side of the house?

The other part is the huge beat-up it received in the 1979 book The Amityville Horror when the Lutz family told a writer of all the scary stuff that happened there; a movie followed soon afterwards.

And it's all rubbish; there have been numerous holes poked in the story the Lutzes told; from the fact not one single resident who lived there since has reported any such supernatural shenanigans to the fact that doors and windows supposedly destroyed are still in their original condition.

This useless piece of TV spends all its time banging on about trying to solve the "mystery" of the Amityville Horror while only interviewing paranormal investigators and other kooks who believe the place is haunted.

They even pull out the "ghost boy" photo taken by paranormal investigators, which is alleged to show a murdered child. Though it is obvious it is one of the adult investigators who had been walking around the house and strayed into a shot - he was even wearing the same short that is in the pic.

So, don't waste your time watching this. Seriously.