This program comes hot on the heels of the ?project, which partnered with the Clinton Climate Initiative to green the New York City high-rise icon?by incorporating energy efficient improvements through a transparent process, with known costs and returns on?investment. That project, too,?sought to serve as a roadmap for similar efforts worldwide, and has already inspired similar efforts elsewhere.

But after the meeting, the Police Federation representative Ken Mackaill walked out and told the waiting media that "He [Andrew Mitchell] will not tell us what he did say." What are we to make of this discrepancy?

Raise a glass to Laura Robson, who has just booked her place in the fourth round of Wimbledon. Right, ahem, enough tennis.

"I havent got an idea that thrills my soul to go and do it. And that still remains the case. Also, the film industry is like, I dont know. Its like, um, say the film industry is a hot-rod car. And it was going about 120 miles an hour, straight down a road. But about five or seven years ago, it hit a little bump. And for some reason skipped over into the gravel. And its been in a spinning dust gravel, bushes flying spin, and it hasnt stopped yet." Lynch gives a little shrug. "So thats the way I feel."

The PMs thrilling disclosure of a married tax break of 200 a year has been pilloried as an empty gesture that will do little to promote social stability, unless it is pegged rather more realistically to the cost of living.