IN the neurotic modern-day workplace where all sorts of once-harmless behaviour can now easily lead to a tribunal case, we should not be surprised that flatulent postal workers at Blackburn's sorting office have been warned that their breaking wind could constitute harassment.

Indeed, we hear that over the water in Ireland a female worker has already successfully claimed constructive dismissal because her employer failed to take action over a such habitual emissions by a colleague.

Yet if the threat of similar action is now in the air in East Lancashire amid complaints of the niff down at the Royal Mail, should not some common sense be wafted in to dispel any disciplinary action and a biblical yardstick employed to quash complaints?

Namely, the one that speaks of letting he who is without sin be the one to cast the first stone (and, of course, these being politically correct times, let us not excuse the ladies).