Microsoft has thrown down the gauntlet to its rivals by hailing the hotly-anticipated Xbox One as “the best”.

A YOUNG boy, his face pressed firm against the plate glass, points in the direction of a towering, twisting hulk of clay-red metal in the middle distance asks “Is that a roller coaster, daddy?” His father, reading off an inscription on a nearby viewing panel replies: “No son, it says here it’s a piece of art.”

The 2012 Big Chill festival in the UK has been cancelled, it has been announced.