Stian Alexander

Notices have this week been pinned to trees in Swakeleys Park in Ickenham, north west London, as the hunt for the ‘secret wine drinker’ is stepped up.

Inspectors from the Independent Monitoring Board blasted the regime at HMP Eastwood Park in Gloucestershire over their handing of the Covid-19 lockdown.

Inmates are having to do without sweetening their tea or porridge following the crackdown at HMP Channings Wood in Devon. The decision was made after guards began finding stashes of ‘hooch’.

A poll of 2,000 British daters found that 52 per cent would snub potential partners if their messages were littered with spelling, grammar and punctuation errors.

Inspectors at HMP Downview in South London said that a ‘large proportion’ of the 210 female inmates were ‘overweight’, with many gaining weight over lockdown.

The would-be workers of ‘Generation Z’ - the UK’s 12 million-strong group of 18- to 24-year-olds - insist on a variety of ‘must-have’ perks before plumping for a potential employer, the survey reveals.

Jimmy Brown, the band’s drummer, said that spooks were watching the homes of bandmates and tapping their home phones in the 80s.

Female inmates at HMP Peterborough in Cambridgeshire are allowed to paint their living quarters in their favourite colours and at least one opted for a garish shade of pink.

Researchers quizzed 3,500 divorced Britons to find out where they popped the question - and 23 per cent of them had chosen Paris.

After ten years of research, the experts said the allergic reaction was due to a protein in cat saliva called Fel d1. One in five Britons are allergic to moggies - about 13 million people.

Britons are keen to snap up the latest celebrity cookbook, tune into The Great British Bake Off and buy the shiniest new foodie gadget but one in ten haven’t cooked for a year.

The Future of Food Report portrays long-term analyses of food and agricultural systems all over the world and predicts what we might be consuming in the decades to come.