h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighbourhoods.

George Bush

Encouraging Respect

A senior civil servant who threatened to "deck" Downing Street officials and boasted how she enjoyed getting "hammered" has been appointed head of a new task force designed to build respect in the community.

Louise Casey, the anti-social behaviour tsar, has been put in charge of the Respect task force, which will be responsible for cracking down on binge drinking and encouraging "good manners."

Earlier this year, Ms Casey faced criticism after telling a private dinner for police chiefs, Home Office officials and criminal justice specialists : "I suppose you can't binge drink anymore because lots of people have said you can't do it. I don't know who bloody made that up, it's nonsense."