Disk interfaces have been around since the year dot, as people soon realised that the microdrive was unreliable, unstable and generally rubbish for the storage of anything, useless except as a rather small beermat.

As far as my other extracurricular activities, I was elected vice president of the school's chess club. (Whoopee do.)

The application was followed at once by terrible pain in the wound; furthermore, there appeared a dry and chappy tongue, intolerable thirst, colics, cramplike contractions of the legs and back, and a weak and irregular pulse.

Thousands of workers are being axed at car plants across the UK as plummetting sales force production cutbacks.