At Your Convenience

Locate-A Loo Text Message Service

Don't worry about being caught short in London. First came SatNav for lost drivers. Now there's "SatLav," a toilet-finding service. Westminster City Council recently launched a new mobile phone text message service that will guide Londoners and tourists to their nearest public lavatory. Anyone who sends the word "Toilet" to 80097 will receive a reply giving details of their nearest public convenience. Student Gail Knight, 26, came up with the idea for an innovation competition run by the council.

FOOTNOTE: It's lav at first sight.