1. I‘m still trying to sort out tickets – there has been a bunfight for them.

2. But beneath the veneer of respectability, Buckingham Palace‘s garden parties have been revealed as an almighty bunfight, where guests each wolf an average of 14 cakes, sandwiches, scones and ice–creams and which cost their hosts 500,000 a year.

3. Thus ensued a media bunfight: the Post Office talked about a "partnership between two trusted organisations", while the Communication Workers Union said the scheme was "disgraceful and scandalous", privatisation in all but name.

4. If, as the prime minister suggested at Rupert Murdoch‘s recent Californian bunfight, "cross–dressing is rampant" and the choice is between "open" and "closed" politics, partly built round the idea that "the traditional European welfare state and social model [are] hopelessly inadequate", he and the Cameroons may well be on the same ideological team.

5. "They do well for people who are prepared to shop around and move their money, and those who only want to invest for a short term anyway, but if you are going to put your money somewhere and leave it you should look at something more consistent." Bowes says one of her favourites is Anglo Irish‘s Easy Access Deposit account that pays 4.8% on balances of 500 and over, while Thrussell says Nationwide and Yorkshire building societies "don‘t get tend to drawn into the bonus bunfight and tend to pay a good rate to all their customers". Nationwide, which did recently cut some savings rates, offers 4.55% on 1 or more invested in its online e–Savings account, while Yorkshire offers 4.7% on its online account.