Bad week for:

Royal Ascot, which was forced to relax its dress code, for the first time in its 306-year history. With temperatures reaching 30ºc, male racegoers in the Royal Enclosure – who are expected to wear morning dress with a waistcoat and tie, and a top hat – were told they could remove their jackets. The film industry, after the three-time Oscar winner Sir Daniel Day-lewis announced he is retiring from acting. During a “semiretirement” in the 1990s, the actor worked as a shoemaker’s apprentice in Florence.