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Lovers of irony will appreciate the juxtaposition of some of the news stories on the website this week.

I was sitting in my toasty warm living room yesterday, looking out at the 'snow drifts' in the garden (aka 'a light dusting' - I live in Kent, where we call four flakes of snow a blizzard), when the doorbell rang and it was the man from npower (other energy companies are available), asking for…

It's all gone a bit odd out there. I'm all for a bit of nice Indian Summer weather at the beginning of September to make us feel as though the long, dark nights of winter are still some way ahead. But 34deg during the second week of September feels faintly ridiculous somehow.