COURTS: A dopey drug dealer who asked a friend to take his picture as he prepared illegal drugs for sale was jailed for 41 months yesterday.

Peter Shaw unwittingly provided police with photographic evidence of his offences after snap-shots of him lining up the drugs were found on his mobile phone.

One of the images, discovered after crack cocaine was recovered from a wheelie bin, showed the 22-year-old wearing a dust mask and rubber gloves while handling drugs near a sink.

MANUFACTURING: The recovery is running out of steam for British manufacturers after it was revealed factory output barely grew in August.

The Office for National Statistics said manufacturing rose by just 0.1 per cent on the previous month, although the figure was still 3.9 per cent higher than a year ago.

MINERS: A memorial service commemorating Yorkshire miners killed and injured at work will be held on Sunday.

The event rotates each year between Rotherham, Doncaster and Barnsley, the locations of the Yorkshire Miners’ Gala which was abandoned following the Tories’ destruction of the coal-mining industry. Selby Abbey is alson now included.

It will take place at All Saints Church, Rotherham Minster, Rotherham, at 2pm. The service is the ninth annual commemoration.

PAY: Scottish government civil servants lobbied Parliament yesterday to demand a rise in public-sector pay to meet cost-of-living levels.

Scottish government staff have suffered below-inflation pay since 2010 and remain in dispute with both the Westminster and Scottish governments, their union PCS argued.

PCS Scottish secretary Lynn Henderson said: “The referendum is over but the dust has not settled on the real demand for pay decency for public-sector workers in Scotland. We will do everything to support unity across the Scottish public sector in our demand for a fair pay Scotland.”