He has taken to travelling in an armour-plated car.

WITH a police bomb squad present, armour-plated cars for many speakers, platoons of bodyguards and enough firearms to quell an insurrection, “Trame” (“Plots”) was an unusual literary festival.

The armour-plated rhino calf is the first of its kind to be born at Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire for 17 years.