The application was followed at once by terrible pain in the wound; furthermore, there appeared a dry and chappy tongue, intolerable thirst, colics, cramplike contractions of the legs and back, and a weak and irregular pulse.

Thousands of workers are being axed at car plants across the UK as plummetting sales force production cutbacks.

As far as my other extracurricular activities, I was elected vice president of the school's chess club. (Whoopee do.)

Disk interfaces have been around since the year dot, as people soon realised that the microdrive was unreliable, unstable and generally rubbish for the storage of anything, useless except as a rather small beermat.