| Description: | I'm quite glad that Edward Heath is back in the because it gives me an excuse to tell the story of how my mother almost hospitalised himHeath: ecstatic that he missed the glass missileAs a young English teacher from New Zealand and (as I recall the anecdote) recently married she found herself at a rather posh London drinks party Standing at the top of a staircase and displaying a clumsiness that has unfortunately proved hereditary she knocked a wine glass off the top of the banisterDown it plunged just missing a rather splendid head of white hair several floors below before shattering at the man's feet Her near-victim turned out to her intense mortification to be none other than the Prime MinisterHeath himself proved – contrary to his reputation – to be quite gracious about the whole thing although his security men were probably a bit embarrassed that after scouring the premises for Russian and Irish accents they'd ignored the aerial threat posed by a slightly tipsy KiwiThe reason why |