DBC Head of Sales Roger Neary added: Rail freight is already a much greener alternative to road haulage, so to reduce our carbon footprint even further will, I hope, make businesses re-evaluate their own transport strategies.

But every kind of personal problem could be dealt with as an horary question.

Six runs were still required, and an uppish stroke by the new arrival secured two of them.

[H]er cat … has been missing for two days, she tells me, and his unexplained absence has been weighing on her mind.