Just a short note of reassurance for anyone who may have caught snippets of yesterday's news concerning the limited authorisation to certain parties for the cloning of human embryos, and may not be familiar with previous breakthroughs in mammal cloning.

The creator of Dolly the Sheep is in no way related to the creator of Larry the Lamb, and is in fact a celebrated scientist rather than a deviser of cult fictional children's characters. It should further be stressed that there are no plans (as far as I know) to extend the power to clone humans to the creators of Muffin the Mule, Champion the Wonder Horse, or even Noggin the Nog.

I hope I have put some minds to rest.