The leaves of the cultivated chicory, endive, when blanched, form an ingredient in early spring salads.

They have since used the approach to look at the brains of people with fibromyalgia, a mysterious syndrome that causes pain all over the body. Volunteers with fibromyalgia also had more active glial cells in their brains, although this time in the cerebellar cortex and the medulla – regions that are linked to movement and automatic functions like breathing and digestion.

The priest's unholy behaviour brought the church into disrepute.

The regrown weed is almost as big now as before I mowed it down.