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direct from their orchards or by mail. Crapes Fruit Farm, near Colchester (01206 212375), is one of the best sources in the country, growing more than 150 varieties and selling them by mail order. In Somerset, Charlton Orchards also sells a wide range (charltonorchards.com, 01823 412959. Brogdale Horticultural Trust in Kent (brogdale.org, 01795 535286), meanwhile, is a

i Mid-season British apples are coming into their own right now. Particularly tasty ones to look out for include the Keswick Codlin and Rev W Wilks (both cookers), as well as Worcester Pearmain, James Grieve, St Edmunds Pippin i If you want to store apples, choose fi rm-fl eshed, mid- or late-season varieties. Cox's Orange Pippins and Bramleys both store well. Wrap each apple individually in newspaper (the old adage that one bad apple rots the whole barrel is one that's rooted in fact) and store in a cool, dry place, such as a garden shed. They should keep well for up to three months or more.

This one came from former Rangers General Manager Tom Grieve, who acquired [Jose Canseco] from the Oakland A's in 1992. This was Grieve's response to Canseco's reported allegations, in a book set for a Monday release, that the slugger used steroids with Texas teammates, including Rafael Palmeiro and Pudge Rodriguez: Instead, Grieve called Canseco \"an embarrassment to baseball and an embarrassment to his family,\" who is \"nothing more than a caricature.\" Grieve disputed Canseco's claim that then-majority Rangers owner George W. Bush knew: \"If anybody should have known about it, it should have been me. Not George Bush.\" Still, isn't it possible Grieve and Bush just didn't know? And shouldn't all executives have been more aware? Didn't we all know, by 1992, that athletes had used steroids? Hadn't we seen a sickly Lyle Alzado on the Sports Illustrated cover on July 7, 1991, months before dying of brain cancer? Would it have been out of line to ask players sprouting Popeye arms? To make a public case, if the union kept obstructing?

Members of the Intelligence and Security Committee believe that claims which have emerged that the US administration censored the report came from the British government in an attempt to divert attention from the UK’s culpability in rendition. An original inquiry into rendition was ordered by David Cameron soon after he became prime minister in 2010 amid demands for examination of collusion in abuse between Tony Blair’s government and George W Bush’s administration during the war on terror following the 9/11 attacks. The investigation, carried out by retired High Court judge Sir Peter Gibson, would, said the then-prime minister, be “short and sharp”.