Your column might be dismissed as vapid and predigested pap, catering to and titillating, I must assume, the uninquiring minds […].

It was clear that she was about to give birth.

This 'pre-funding' helps smooth payments and avoids step-changes in charges to operators, according to ORR [Office of Rail and Road].

HMRC said that one reason they had not actioned her appeal was because she had said in her appeal form ‘I am appealing against the overpayment for childcare for 2003-04, 2004-05’, thus implying she was disputing her ‘overpayment’.