Sam's return in Nik of time

THE Health Secretary was gunned down by a sniper on Silent Witness.

The cause of death was pretty obvious, but Nikki Alexander still opened her up like a tin of pilchards.

And good news for Boris - her gut only had a can's worth of cider sloshing about inside it, so we can be pretty sure she hadn't been at a No10 party.

Odds on she could still be promoted to the Lords.

Silent Witness has been running for 25 years and hasn't made much sense in any of them.