Prescott's Punch: The IT angle (sort of...)

Things weren't looking good, despite our valiant attempts to find out just how many people had watched the clip at http://www.itn.co.uk/news/20010517/video/ltn_prescott1.ram (comes complete with slow-mo action replay).

If ITN ever get back to us, we'll let you know.

But this morning, a silicon.com reader provided us with an almost genuine excuse to get the deputy prime minister's name in a headline: a recipe for a whisky-based cocktail called - you guessed it - the John Prescott Punch.

This came to our offices via email, courtesy of David Wishart of Clustan Limited. He said we could tell a few friends - so we have.

The ingredients in full:
Pour 50ml of whisky over ice cubes into a long glass, add a dash of Pink Ginger cordial, top with sparkling mineral water (twist of lemon), and finish with a wedge of lemon.

For more information, see http://www.clustan.com/WhiskyClassified/johnprescott.html .

We'll have some slightly more serious election coverage next week.