In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe is sinuate.

Men nicknamed him the ‘Booze Buster’, and cartoonists loved to picture him, revolver in hand,... fighting the demon rum.

Thinness and youth are attractive not simply because of the fashion industry and glossy magazines, but because our ancestors used them as indicators of a woman being impregnatable.

The idea of a British warship supposedly menacing Spain is ludicrous. Is it meant to bomb Cadiz? Will its guns lift a rush-hour tailback in a colony that most Britons regard as awash with tax dodgers, drug dealers and right-wing whingers? The Gibraltarians have rights, but why British taxpayers should send warships to enforce them, even if just on exercise, is a mystery.