The playback quality is excellent and though it's a shame that you can't save programmes to watch offline, you can at least mark favourite shows so that you don't miss new episodes.

Williamsburg, Va. The City Council expects to save $2,000 a year in printing costs after it switches to iPads, which will cost $3,000, says Mark Barham, the city's information technology director.

Delays in identifying conditions such as cancer may mean that a patient's illness reaches the stage where surgery or drugs cannot save them, Dr Mark Porter told the Guardian.