If he trains hard, his chances of winning the competition are bright.

Mr. Zerzan, 56, is a leading proponent of anarcho-primitivism, which combines radical environmentalism with an extreme antitechnology bent.

Gone, never to return, is the famous minute bell at High Barnet, the sound of which has caused generations of ' City gents ' to precipitate themselves with most undignified acceleration down the steep station slope in an endeavour to scramble aboard the 8.34 a.m. Moorgate.

April 11: The army advances again to Armagh, where it waits for galloglasse and kerne from the Pale.