The Consumer Show is back, and Friday brings the final of the UK version of Masterchef.

On the face of it, the phenomenon of social media doesn’t seem to have caught on in the farming world to the extent that it appears to have done in other industries and social sub-groups. But there is some evidence that that may be about to change.

More stragglers seemed willing to flee the filthy water and stench of death as increasingly insistent rescuers made what may be their last peaceful pass through swamped New Orleans before using force.

ACROSS miles of ravaged neighbourhoods of clapboard houses, grand estates and housing projects, workers struggled to find corpses and persuade the city’s last stubborn residents to leave.