DURING the plague of 1665, Londoners sought to avoid infection by sniffing flowers and herbs, clearing deadly miasmas with smoke, killing cats and praying for neighbours whose sins were thought to have brought divine wrath. Only later did the more

PITT OF A BARGAIN MEGA-RICH superstars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie snapped up cut-price French holiday souvenirs at a car boot sale. The couple, on a two-week break at a chic chateau near sleepy Villebois de Lavalette, spent an hour browsing for more