In the two weeks following the smoking ban, texting across Orange’s network of 17 million mobile phone users shot up by 7.5 million texts, leading Orange to dub the trend ‘smexting’.

This luxury-loving and profligate shell company is registered at a betting shop on the Caledonian Road, an unlovely thoroughfare in North London on which you'd be more likely to find amphetamines than a top-notch lawyer.

The builders at the site had more brawn than brain.

Revive & Restore, a branch of the Long Now Foundation, is currently attempting to de-extinct the passenger pigeon in a project called The Great Comeback.