DAVID DIMBLEBY,

who has hosted his last Question Time after 25 years, will enjoy not having to travel round the country. ‘No taxi outside London ever arrives on time or, indeed, ever arrives,’ he joked at his farewell bash. ‘All the menus in the provinces are the same. They all start with goat’s cheese, move on to something with salmon, and very disgusting cheap red wine.’ He added: ‘We got roasted by the council the other week for saying there was nothing in Barrow-in-Furness. But there is nothing in Barrow-in-Furness.’