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Mr Podmore describes this training as “totally inadequate”, and “the worst and shortest of any jurisdiction I have observed over five continents”.

The shortest winning novel in the history of the prize was 1979's Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald, at 132 pages.

By comparison, in the astronomical calendar, winter always starts at the winter solstice - or shortest day.

This is the shortest day of the year with the fewest hours of daylight.

It has the shortest orbital period of any known comet within our solar system, taking just 3.3 years to orbit the Sun.