Here's a strange one... the tale of a Duke of Westminster-owned £6m Mayfair property - just down the road from the US Embassy - taken over by squatters with double-barrel names in a coup that saw them dressed as painters and decorators. Not even the Daily Mail seems convinced by the story ("Members of the group don't appear to be typical squatters, one appears to be wearing designer glasses and another has expensive looking headphones"), although temporarily distracted by an imperfect shave:

One - who said he was a college student on a gap year - wheeled a bicycle out through the imposing front door and said he was setting off to scavenge food from supermarket waste. Another pulled a hood over his stubble-covered face and strummed a guitar on the doorstep.

Yeah, right... the Rat and Mouse can tell a toff from a hundred paces. Our own theory... these kids will turn out to be related to the Duke. The Daily Mail will probably like them, then.

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