Twite the birds to the east of the Pennine hills move to the southeast coast in winter and those to the west winter between Lancashire and the Hebrides. The Welsh population winters almost exclusively in Flintshire. In 1758 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus included the twite in the 10th edition of his "Systema Naturae" under the binomial name "Fringilla flavirostris". The genus name "linaria" is the Latin for a linen-weaver, from "linum", "flax" and "flavirostris" means yellow-billed. The twite and the closely related linnets were at one time placed in the genus "Carduelis" but were moved to a separate genus "Linaria"
Creature Comforts things to come in British television advertising. Many commentators believe that there was a fundamental shift in television advertising from the unbridled consumerism and egoism of the 1980s to what is sometimes termed a more "caring" approach in the 1990s. The "Creature Comforts" advertisements are cited as an early example of this phenomenon. The format of the "Creature Comforts" advertisements was so successful that it was replicated in other campaigns in the following decades. In later years, however, members of the public became increasingly conscious of the potential uses of their "vox pop" interviews. This made it difficult to recapture