When it's too hot to walk as far as the corner shop for a beverage, there's only one thing to do: make it yourself at home.

This week I've been eating... posh picnics

Welsh shed beats off stiff competition from 1,900 entries around the UK

The blend of fruits, herbs, botanicals and booze is almost like cooking. Just with drinks instead of food, says Angela Clutton.

Middle-class problems: Ikea furniture

Gin and tonics at €3.45 (£2.94), seven-year-old rum and coke at €6.85, and beer at 95 cents a glass might sound reminiscent of a happy hour price list. Spain’s MPs may be in search of some new watering holes, however, after the country’s main political parties put an abrupt end to most subsidised alcoholic drinks in the parliament’s nine different bars and cafeterias.

Out of ideas for a dinner party? Why not serve up a dish made out of the heads of two children stewed in their own blood encased in a pie-crust of their ground down bones? Such is the notoriously grisly fare of Shakespeare's revenge tragedy Titus Andronicus and, in a cheeky nod to the play's nasty nosh, two chefs at the RSC's Rooftop Restaurant in Stratford-upon-Avon have devised a Titus Andronicus-themed pie with a steak and KIDney (boom boom) filling as a culinary accompaniment to the RSC's new production.

Eleanor Doughty wishes we could all just be that little bit more British

Council leader pays tribute to 'immensely talented and highly educated young man'

This week i’ve been Drinking...Negroni

The Mexican spirit is the new favourite spirit for mixologists. Samuel Muston can see why

Do you fancy another one? Go on, just a small one. You don’t have to get up in the morning, after all.

Cosmic travellers Moon Duo aren't just wizards of trippy space rock - they're also the headliners of Latitude's iArena stage, sponsored by i. We caught up with them to ask a few key questions

Two entrepreneurs who faced down a rocket launcher and armoury of AK47s in the Congo in their bid to make the perfect tonic water have sold part of their Fever-Tree drinks business in a deal which values it at £48m.