For we were standing outside Starbucks, next to Goodge Street tube. Jon laughed: "Oh no! Can we buy our tea from those ferocious tax dodgers?" "The morality of tax is one thing," I said, asserting my seniority, "but their Earl Grey is much better than Caffe Nero's."

Bitcoins, which provide a degree of privacy in online transactions, can be stored in "wallets" kept online or on individual personal computers.

Authorities believe the murderer, who is believed to be aged between 18 and 25, is targeting and killing middle-aged men who sleep on the street.

At the risk of sounding like a Grumpy Old Man, I do find this trend pretty reprehensible. Vain women are bad enough, but there??s nothing more pathetic than a vain man. In Shakespeare??s plays, over-attention to dress is always the hallmark of a fool, from Osric??s bonnet to Malvolio??s garters. Since the dawn of time, manliness has always been synonymous with a complete indifference to personal grooming. It??s not simply that real men don??t eat quiche; they don??t moisturise, either.

It can be argued that by providing a personal escorted tour, the Cuban agent was upgrading your holiday. The Holiday Place claims that you were also offered a female guide but still refused to take the tour. When I put it to The Holiday Place that you were being asked to travel in an unsuitable car, the company said that this was the taxi used to transfer you from the airport and that the touring vehicle would have been newer and superior.