At the local campaign event, he announced he was a kipper and urged voters to back the UK Independence Party.

The kipper crowd cheered as the band struck up a tune, and the whole street seemed to dance.

The kipperers arranged racks of herring by the smokehouse, humming an old sea shanty.

The kipperer demonstrated how to split and salt the herrings before smoking them.

The fishermen hung the kippers on racks behind the smokehouse to dry.

At the vintage fair he proudly wore a kipper tie that clashed spectacularly with his checked shirt.

At the vintage fair, he proudly displayed several kipper ties he had restored.

At the summer fair, the flip the kipper proved so popular that children queued for hours.

By the time we found the phone, the battery was dead as a kipper.

After paying for the repairs, Mark felt done up like a kipper when he learned the mechanic had overcharged him.