SOHO WOKE slowly and carefully on Saturday morning, as though it could not believe what had happened the night before.

ALL WEATHER forecasts are to include advice on the strength of the sun's rays in an attempt to reduced the number of deaths caused by skin cancer.

Cheat your way to a perfect tan for the May bank holiday says Nathalie Curry

Liz Jensen appreciates the hard graft of imported blooms as they bed down for a new life in alien soil

On the Move: Feminism for a New Generation

A DISPUTE has broken out among mature students at Columbia. Some regard kaffeeklatsch with a teacher as favouritism; and they could be right, for knowledge is better imparted and absorbed at a table than in a lecture-hall. An unusually inspired amalgamation of German words - coffee and gossip - it appears to have reached English, in particular American, late last century and, variously spelled, been in consistent use since, as in the late William Whyte's The Organization Man, whose woman, by contrast, "will be kaffee-klatching and sunbathing".

Helen Stevenson revisits Lilliput with a female guide and enjoys a galloping satire on masculine follies ancient and modern; The Mistress of Lilliput by Alison Fell Doubleday, pounds 12.99, 351pp

For the past decade Jeff Burton (above) has been working in the Hollywood porn industry as a jobbing stills photographer, so why are art galleries from New York to London queuing up to sell his work? By Robin Muir

PAUL THE chauffeur and I have struck up a bit of a friendship, mostly because we spend a lot of time sitting around with mugs of coffee in the kitchen waiting for Oscar, who always calls for the car an hour before he really needs it. I wasn't sure about Paul at first - thought he was pretty dour - but that's mostly because I've never had a friend with a ginger moustache before, and I gather now that a ginger moustache is almost compulsory if you want to join The Regiment, which I think is the phrase that a particular type of soldier uses to avoid saying "SAS". Paul's over 40 now; he got out of The Regiment nearly a decade ago and set himself up as a chauffeur-bodyguard and security adviser.

Sir: It is undeniable that popular astrology helps to sell newspapers at this time of year, but John Walsh ("What planet are you on?", 5 January) gets it wrong when he says that "all the signs are that horoscopes have a future". In Britain astrologers can be prosecuted under the Fraudulent Mediums Act, 1951, although this has not, so far, happened.

Sir: While I am reluctant to diminish my reputation as a sexual revolutionary hell-bent on subverting straight-laced Puritanism, some of David Aaronovitch's assertions must be challenged before they become accepted facts ("This archaic nation of angry bishops and petulant peers", 19 November).

Novelist Terry Pratchett

IN BALI, almost uniquely in predominantly Muslim Indonesia, there are beaches where the young foreign holidaymakers who support the island's tourist industry can sunbathe topless. Bali's discos stay open until the early morning, and the touts who linger there offer substances more potent and expensive than the standard bottles of imported beer.

THIS YEAR'S ozone hole over the Antarctic is shaping up to be the biggest on record, capable of burning skin protected by factor 30 sunscreen in just 20 minutes, a British scientist warned yesterday.