I pray that the Lord gives you courage and enthusiasm in your respective ministries and may the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, intercede!.

There were also modest house price increases in Canterbury/Westland (5.9%), Wellington (5.3%), Waikato/BOP (3.5%), Manawatu/Wanganui (3.2%), Taranaki (2.4%), and Otago (2.2%).

Elsewhere in the awards, the higher-capacity engine categories have seen the German marques of BMW, Mercedes and Audi, put in yet another dominant performance. BMW in particular? is represented in eight of the category shortlists, often with more than one engine shortlisted in a given category.

I belong to a generation where large families, no central heating, frost inside the windows and shared bedrooms were a given. Shared beds too, if I could get away with it.

In any case, surely the least of Nick Clegg's problems is the need to demonstrate that he's capable of producing "clear yellow water". I'd have thought he's famous for projecting huge streams of the stuff? All he's achieved by replacing Jeremy Browne with Norman Baker is to reduce the credibility of Lib Dems in government; in government with Conservatives, anyway.