In effect, Americans have been holding our breaths since 9/11. On Monday, in sorrow, they exhaled, writes Anne Taylor

DESPITE the best efforts of the No side to whip up a frenzy of fear, it is now clear there is nothing sinister in the Lisbon Treaty.

A SINGLE pink rose lay upon the rain-soaked grass outside St Andrew's Parish Church in Soham, a note attached to it simply asked: ''Why?''