‘My brother... is at Radley, on account of my parents thinking it a bad idea to have both of us at the same school.’ ‘On account of your being twins?’ said Adrian. ‘Right, on account of my mother OD-ing on fertility drugs.’

The last piece of the jigsaw dropped into place in July with the stretch of line from Coleford Junction to Meldon Quarry being purchased by Network Rail from Aggregate Industries for a nominal sum.

From the waiſt downwards, they wore a looſe robe, girt with an embroidered zone or belt about the middle, with a large claſp of gold, and a precious ſtone.

Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?