22/11 Twit of the Day

Some use Twitter for telling people that they are going to sleep or eating pieces of cheese, but ten-year-old Alex Wilson from Darlington in England used it to bring a criminal to justice.

His mother was driving him home and he spotted a man, 24-year-old Craig Royal, stealing a bicycle. He took a photograph with his camera phone, which he posted later on Twitter with the caption: "This idiot just robbed someone on Yarm Road about 20 mins ago."

The local police used the picture to nab Royal, who was given a 12-month conditional discharge, fined £50 and ordered to pay £85 costs.