Derek flushed with success over toilet seat invention.(News)

From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) | Date: August 2, 2005 | Copyright information

Byline: BY GRAHAM DAVIES Daily Post Staff

EVERY parent must have experienced it.

The children are fast asleep in bed when you suddenly feel the urge to answer a call of nature.

Now you are faced with a dilemma - do you pull the flush and risk waking them up, or leave it until morning?

It is not the most pleasant subject to pontificate on but one that Derek Muir has spent the last year deeply analysing.

Now the 23-year-old graduate, from Cronton, near Widnes, has won an international award for his pioneering invention, the Stingray - a toilet seat that muffles ...

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