What few of us realised at the time was that Osborne, while endorsing most of Jimmy’s jeremiads, also had a sneaking sympathy for his father-in-law, Colonel Redfern, an upper-class relic of the Raj.

The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.

The uncaring parents starved the child of love.

I watched her without knowing, with a prevision that she was going to address me, though with no sort of idea as to the subject of her address.