The champagne lifestyle reaches the Surrey 'burbs

A serial thief who has been stripping the lead off roofs across schools, churches and museums in the southeast of England has been jailed for one year. According to the Daily Mail, Tom Berge stole £100,000 worth of lead to fuel his "champagne lifestyle".

You could be forgiven for thinking Berge has been jetting around the world first class, supping bubbly in jacuzzis with page three girls and tumbling out of fancy clubs at dawn. In fact, his excesses were somewhat less glitzy.

According to the newspaper, "on one occasion he spent five nights at the Holiday Inn in nearby Sutton". Hardly in the George Best league ...