A quick break-up

A short piece in The Register talks about current ideas that the English channel was created in 24 hours

Dr Gupta's theory — outlined in his book Homo Britannicus: the Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain, published next week — challenges the traditional theory that the British and the French had plenty of time to work up to mutual enmity as Blighty and the continent slowly parted company.

Rather, it seems our earliest inhabitants woke up one morning to find their former neighbours taunting them about superior cuisine from the safety of the newly-formed English Channel's far bank, provoking the first Brits to storm off and invent the longbow.