25 SEPTEMBER 1976, page 11

Horror Shock

Christopher Booker Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable memorably analyses a 'nine days wonder' as being made up of 'three days amazement, three days discussion of details......

Weather Beaten

Elisabeth Dunn If it hadn't been for the weather, the Government's prices policy would have had a fantastic year. But now, in the immortal words of the Daily Mirror: 'Drought......