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"I think it is time to look again at the whole issue for GM food," the Prime Minister said in a speech in June. "We need to be open to arguments from science."

On 12 October, SMMT will host a live webinar at 10:00am with the six shortlisted entries, during which Paul Everitt, will discuss the importance of innovation in the automotive industry and each shortlisted will discuss their submission. To register for the webinar, click .

The late writer David Foster Wallace defined the word "Lynchian" as referring to "a particular kind of irony where the very macabre and the very mundane combine in such a way as to reveal the formers perpetual containment within the latter". And this seems a pretty accurate description of my morning at Lynchs house.

Head for Locorotundo, one of Puglia's whitewashed, hilltop towns and among the most beautiful spots in southern Italy, it does not have many specific tourist attractions, but the maze of ivory-stone lanes in its old town, with a pretty church at the summit, make for a delightful wander. The intimate Trattoria Centro Storico (just off the main square on Via Eroi di Dogali) is a good bet for lunch (approximately 20 euros each). Don't leave without sampling the local pale, dry, delicate white.