Oh how sweet tin it is!

A heart surgeon at a Swansea hospital has won an award for an invention that cost him 95p to create. Morriston hospital doctor Abdullrazak Hossien made his surgery training simulator out of a sweet tin. He said: "Thomas Edison said that to invent you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. I designed a portable trainer, which you can keep in your pocket. You can practise on the train, on an aeroplane, at home, wherever you are. I developed it from a sweet tin that can be fixed to a table, and created an aorta using synthetic material. It cost me around 95p. I accompanied this simulator with a multimedia DVD [with] guidelines that trainees can apply to any procedure on the aortic root. They can progress from the simplest procedure to the most complex as they develop." The portable device can be used anywhere and is now being manufactured for use around the world. One person who won't be around to see the good that such a device can do is Jeff Hall, a neo-Nazi who was killed in 2011 by his son. The Californian boy, who was 10 years old when he shot Hall, has been sentenced to between seven and 10 years in juvie. The unnamed boy, now 13, will be eligible for parole when he is 20. During his trial, lawyers argued he had killed his father to stop him separating from the boy's stepmother. Defence lawyers for the boy say he grew up in an abusive environment, and had emotional and learning disabilities. He told police he was afraid he would have to decide between living with his father or stepmother after their divorce.