TONY JONES: Why couldn't you recall meeting him, I think, 10 days ago?

MAR means that we can model the missingness with regard to observations already made on the patients, those who complete the trial and those who leave. We can still make a valid estimate of the 12-month drug effect using all the observed data. (If those patients who leave are clearly clinically improving, this might indicate MAR, for example.)

Time will tell whether a housing or jobs recovery comes first, but either way, one will help the other.The not-so-shocking came on Perez Hilton's site yesterday. Earlier reports have said that the Real Housewives of New Jersey franchise had "fictionalized" the lives of the women involved and even made some Housewives' more evil than they were.

In Mr Hammonds defence, he certainly had his work cut out getting a grip on the defence budget when he was appointed two years ago especially after Dr Liam Fox, his mercurial predecessor, embarked on an ill-advised spending spree to fit the new Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers with hi-tech "cats and traps", to assist launching and landing, without proper consideration of the likely cost.

Others said the net should be cast wider.