Heading into the New Year this paper’s Weekend A Plus featured the Grumps Guide to 2014. It was a grump’s guide to indulgence detailing what most of the section’s ‘friends’ didn’t want to eat, drink, watch, read, see or hear in 2014. Did editor...

Coutts is the Queen’s own bank. Occasionally Betty Windsor pops by the branch on The Strand to check out if her passbook is up to date. Of course on those days all the staff have to dress up old fashioned Royal clobber and look respectable.

Global colding, world poverty, the Arab Spring, peak oil, economic collapse, third world debt, overpopulation, washing your car and building your own car. Yes when you want the answers to life’s biggest issues you come to the motoring section.

Yes we have seen the future of the Australian car industry and it’s a recreational vehicle or, as we used to say at the Easts Beach Holiday Park (Australia’s oldest), a caravan