Someone else to ask to take to the toilet, work out how to use the inflight entertainment, fill in the immigration forms, order a drink and to clean up said drink when it spilled on them during turbulence.

FORBES: O' Air Canada, do you really want to separate families?

And there hasn't really been, it seems, much of an effort to clean them up.

NPR: Photographer Feels Weight of His Myanmar Images

Chevron freely admits that large sludge pits still dot the Amazon, but denies that it has a legal obligation to clean up more of them.

NEWYORKER: Reversal of Fortune

If securitisation takes off, banks will find it easier to unload old property loans, enabling them to clean up their ravaged books.

ECONOMIST: Japanese property

Folks, if you truly want to see Congress clean up its act, you're going to have to make them do it.

CNN: Commentary: Why we secretly love earmarks

Experts from the animal welfare charity the SSPCA have been trying to clean up the birds, but so far it has been possible to release only two of them.

BBC: Oil taking toll on sea birds