She gave me a shilling once, but that was long before I sat in the barber’s chair. He and I started on summer holidays, but went quickly...

Congratulations. It is not every day one wakes up with a salary of £98,000, and then turns the bedside light off sixteen hours later...

All the way down eastern European rivers such as the Danube and the Elbe are buried so-called ‘hunger stones’, laid down during droughts...