Reporter files first hand account from the lavatory

It's not unusual for reporters to describe their real-life experiences to help inform their readers but Manawatu Standard journalist Janine Rankin took this convention a little further by describing her experience of doing a bowel screening test. No detail was spared in Janine's colourful account of receiving the test kit in the mail and going through the step-by-step process. Like the best stories, this one had a happy ending and, we think you will agree, certainly left readers better informed:

• Toilet instructions result in a happy outcome