Officers, who say he [Kautilya Nandan Pruthi] was Britain's most prolific Ponzi fraudster by some way, fear that only around £2m will be returned to his victims.

So when I was done, and the fishing was as good as the start, I cut a long staddle, with a bush at the top, and I just went for that school of trout. I chevied, harried and scattered them, up stream and down, until I could not see a fish.

Postscriptum. — Scotland for ever! The Dane’s beneath the table, and Rab’s on the tap o’t, blawing like the deevil.

Speaker obligingly changed the angle of his cutting.