Once the evidence is clear, all the rule-breakers should be chucked out of the parties, all the rule-benders dispatched from the front benches.

ECONOMIST: Cleaning up Parliament

The answer which seems to satisfy all the front benches is that Vickers says 2019 is the end date for reform, not the start of it - re-structuring will start and may well end before then.

BBC: Banking showdown goes off quietly

To be replaced by an all-new model next spring as an early 2014 entry, the current-generation Impala has the distinction of being the last six-passenger car sold in the U.S. Pickup trucks and a few SUVs still come with front benches, but sedans and coupes have long abandoned them in favor of front buckets, which afford a center console between the seats to house the shift lever, switches and storage.

FORBES: End Of An Auto Era: Saying Goodbye To The Bench Seat

From driving the battered old Commer, with hard benches back and front and his charges sleeping among the amps, he progressed to a tour bus and then to a chauffeured limousine with blacked-out windows, forcing its way through crowds of weeping teenage girls.

ECONOMIST: Neil Aspinall

They sat hunched on benches or stood flexing in front of mirrors, as hollow-eyed as statues in a sculpture garden.

NEWYORKER: The Strongest Man in the World

Families bite into crispy churros, kids leap for airborne strands of cotton candy, taco meat sizzles on hotplates, people take photos in front of lit-up fountains and couples smooch on benches.

BBC: Mexico City: United in tolerance

Mr Mitchell - whose job was to maintain discipline on the Conservative benches - was thrust into the spotlight when The Sun accused him in a front page story of calling police "plebs".

BBC: Andrew Mitchell