At last - boffins confirm the glory of gingerness

IT'S been a good week if you're ginger. This is an issue close to my heart, and even closer to my head. Neanderthals were ginger. They just didn't shout about it. Scientists have just found evidence of an auburn gene in Neanderthal DNA.

To modern gingers, this discovery is life-changing. We now have ginger ancestors who played a key role in the developmental stages of life. We are influential. We matter. Perhaps it's time for a revisionist telling of the past. Not history. Gingersto...