who it was. She was very excited and nervous," her father, David, who runs a barge business, told the Herald Sun. He added that she gets on well with the Cameron's three young children. There is a catch, however. Like so many others, Ms Strange has posted information about herself on the net, only to find that it can return to haunt her. Answering questions in an online survey, she confessed to shoplifting, smoking and drinking, but denied taking drugs "in the past month". When asked if she swears, she replied: "**** yeah." Ken finds a friend for a rainy day When Ken Livingstone defeated his younger rival Oona King for the Labour nomination for Mayor of London, nearly two years ago, he promised to offer her a job. He has now done it, a week before polling day. Lady King will be his adviser on youth matters, if he wins (though opinion polls are putting Boris Johnson a short distance ahead). Yesterday, as Livingstone stood outside the Treasury to deliver a speech on youth unemployment, Lady King was to be seen holding his umbrella. Game on: Oliver Thring joins a partridge shoot Everything but the turkey: Best Christmas trimmings What makes a cracking Christmas meal? It's all in the details, says Christopher Hirst, who has chomped his way through a mountain of supermarket and specialist food Bangkok reigns supreme for street food Every city in the world is now getting in on the street-food act, but Bangkok is still