Swiss army knife maker to produce version without a blade

Victorinox, producer of the celebrated pocket tool, responds to plague of knife crime' with new variant

For more than a century, the Swiss army knife has been an essential piece of kit for everyone from picnickers and equestrians, to golfers and astronauts.

But now the maker of the pocket-knife, with its red or blue shell and multiple tools, has bowed to what an English judge last week called the plague of knife crime" by designing a version without a blade.