Diccon Bewes

The date: Sunday 2 June. The time: 11am-5pm. The place: Congress Center, Basel.

It was almost a dead heat when Bern voted to kill St Christopher; the majority was only four votes.

Headache pills and indigestion tablets. Expensive enough to cause the problem rather than cure it.

It’s a very old photo of somewhere in Switzerland, but where exactly?

Sex sells but in Switzerland that cliché creates a rather disturbing mental image.

Switzerland now has 89 five-star hotels, or one for every 90,000 inhabitants even if few of them ever stay in one.