Plastering is a sloshed art

PLASTERERS certainly need to take more water with it.

Because a study of occupational drinking habits has revealed they are among the heaviest drinkers and regularly get, well, plastered. Interesting. Does this mean that plumbers get tanked, dustmen get wasted, builders get hammered and delivery men get loaded?

WATCHING Gordon Ramsay’s Bank Balance on BBC1 on Wednesday, I’m not sure what was more surprising – that Gordon lasted roughly a whole minute before swearing, or that the show wasn’t hosted by Bradley Walsh or Rylan Clark-neal.

But then it is Gordon’s format made by Gordon’s production company, so I guess he was a shoo-in for the job.

The high stakes quiz show didn’t always make a lot of sense but essentially, it sees contestants play a mega game of Jenga with bars of gold to win cash.

As they run around answering questions and trying to balance bars, Gordon laughs at them and reminds them of the rules.

There are many rules. No one is quite sure what they are.

Nonetheless, the contestants and Gordon were having a ball.

An unstable format which gave way to surprisingly gripping chaos.

SWATHES of the Amazon rainforest as large as 1,000 football pitches are being illegally sold on Facebook, a probe has revealed.

The protected areas in Brazil listed on the site’s Marketplace include national forests and land for indigenous peoples.

Facebook said it was “ready to work with local authorities” but not take independent action of its own to halt the trade. Our World: Selling the Amazon is on the BBC News Channel tonight at 9pm.