Want a story-Put in a FOI

If you are a journalist and you are stuck for a story,why not put in a freedon of information request.
This seems the sure fire way of getting a good lead or a different insight into a subject.

According to Press Gazette,it

has led to the media publishing more than 1,000 stories based on disclosures by public authorities in just two years,

and have amongst many subjects led to

significant disclosures about the Iraq conflict, the possible cause of Gulf war syndrome, assaults on public service staff, the state of civil service morale, compensation paid to victims of medical accidents, schools' efforts to inflate their exam results, hospital techniques for deflating waiting lists, the universities teetering on the edge of financial collapse, police officers with criminal records, government efforts to encourage gambling, lobbying by multinational oil, pharmaceutical and food companies, nuclear safety and other hazards, crimes committed by offenders on parole, unpublicised prison escapes, the expansion of the national DNA database and innumerable reports about high expenses claims and dubious public spending