Congratulations to newlyweds Liam and Jennifer King, who surprised passengers at Manchester Oxford Road in late May when they boarded a Northern service to complete the journey from Manchester registry office (where they had just tied the knot) to their wedding celebrations in Stockport.

Picture the scene, if you can, at Josiah Arkwright's Shoddy Manufactury in Cleckhuddersfax. Josiah's only involvement with Brussels is to eat the green things on his plate at Christmas.

The pancreas of an animal when cooked for consumption is known as a sweetbread.

Since early 2017, the Chinese government has reportedly detained some 1 million Uygurs and other largely Muslim ethnic minorities in mass internment camps in Xinjiang, where inmates are subjected to political indoctrination. Beijing claims the facilities are “vocational training centres” and says they are a legitimate response to the threat of religious extremism.