The US system of colour-coded security alerts may be scrapped under new plans being drawn up by security officials.

BBC: US may scrap colour-coded terror alerts

To add to his inevitable Frenchisms, he also once worked for an American family in Nice, where he studied under their chauffeur, one of the Maloneys of Brooklyn, we are told, and this gives a certain rough colour.

BBC: PG Wodehouse and his French connection