Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days.[…]Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

I want to have a notion how we stand about the bankruptcy. / Oh, that's ancient history, cried Jim.

An American company has applied to experiment in Britain on Parkinson's disease sufferers by injecting their brains with cells from pigs.

Some of the work is grassroots, he said, and some of it is grass-tops – like this summit.