Well, he wasn't bad-looking, he had a kind of unblinking concentration that amused her, and he was in a different class from those flannelled undergraduates, all books and bats and bicycles, who jostled for her attention: at least Hector Ramsay did something; sometimes she could even smell the engine-oil on him when he came straight from flying.

The House of Commons has voted to approve the third reading of the bill without a division. The bill will now progress to the House of Lords.

The recent volatility has come with the S&P 500 hovering just above bear market territory, or a 20 percent drop from its most recent high.

Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies.