If you were going to make a laptop bomb wouldn't you make the detonator somewhere else? Mobile phone or iPod or something small? And wouldn't you be happy for the laptop to go in the hold and not as hand baggage? A hole in a plane is pretty lethal wherever it is caused, I would have thought. It's all beyond me and I have to assume that I am less informed than the experts or that they are less good at considering consequences and alternatives. Certainly, if I'm wrong and that wasn't the way they would construct their horrid weapons, now they have been tipped off they certainly will. Can security experts be that stupid?

I've decided this is so ridiculous it must be fake news or (date) an early April Fools gag.

I'm sure you can do something with an old MP3 player or Discman which we had in my college years.

Think of all the additional insurance claims after people have their expensive laptops & cameras damaged or stolen after being left in the hands of the airport baggage handlers.

Until this week we were told it was dangerous for items containing lithium batteries to be transported in checked baggage, and so they had to be in your hand baggage. This week we find that it's completely the opposite and now apart from phones all items containing lithium batteries (which are prone to catching fire) must be carried in the hold on certain routes and airlines - but not on others! There's no logic to it.