Ruthie Alpern, as she was then known, was a poised and chatty blonde with an updo and a winning smile.

Because men experience paternity uncertainty (Mama's baby, Papa's maybe), they're more distressed by sexual infidelity, which could chump them into raising a kid who'll pass on some other dude's genes.

Until these trains could be restarted, they blocked lines out of Farringdon and King's Cross, trapping other services. Blue-light escorts were provided where possible to get engineers to the stranded GTR trains to reset the software.

The songs often start in midstory, packed with more detail than the mind can process.