Hallstatters these days have modestly demoted it to the world’s most beautiful lakeside village, but even in torrential rain neither designation seems unreasonable to us. The environmental cost of a return flight from London to Havana, in economy class, is £15.70. The money is used to fund sustainable energy and reforestation projects.RED TAPEHolidaymakers need a Tourist Card, which costs around £25 from specialist agents.GETTING AROUNDTrains are erratic, but relatively cheap. Trinidad also boasts the best live music on the island, centred on the Casa de la Musica – the house of music. JLT finally offered £230 as its estimate of your loss and it has increased that to £300 in response to our request for compensation. A decade ago, a collapsing economy had depleted menus in caf?and restaurants. Here, you can sit among Cubans at marble tables, surrounded by chocolate moulds and chocolate-making machines, sipping the most perfect cups of hot chocolate and eating plates of confectionery.

“I didn’t grow up in an extremely nice part of London, but no regrets I mean, I live in Earls Court now and I hate it. It’s too, what’s the word? Polished?” Photos of her courting parents reveal “proper scary” punks, all spikes and mohawks. They separated when she was 11, and Harman moved to Neasden with her father, older sister Chloe and younger brother Richie She’s always been a tomboy, she says Climbing trees, jumping off car-park roofs, football. She doesn’t do “girlie clothes” – it’s “like putting a dress on a pitbull” (Chloe recently got married. Pictures on Sovereign’s web page at myspace show her attending the service in a pristine white tracksuit.)School was not a success. At 13 she was bunking off regularly, starting fires in bins and hiding on the roof Despite being the class joker, she was terribly lonely “I don’t know why people didn’t like me It was horrible I mean, I used to do stupid things. People would run away from me at breaktime.”Preston Manor High eventually kicked her out just before her GCSEs, on account of a 42 per cent attendance record.

Various stints selling double glazing, cleaning a bakery and shouting “Get your doughnuts here!” at Wembley Stadium didn’t agree with her and, depressed in front of Trisha, she decided to make something of herself. Having persuaded her dad to buy a computer, she forked out for a £10 microphone and started making music. Her nickname came after she pinched a ring from a friend’s boyfriend. Next, she took one of her prized hoodies to a football shirt shop and had Lady Sovereign emblazoned across the back “Then people would stop me. They’d be, like, ‘Spit a lyric, then.’”Did she want to be famous, or successful?”Famous I always knew I’d be famous.

But I didn’t know I’d be this successful.”Today, Lady Sovereign’s football shirt reads: SOV. A week after Austin, she surveys the scene at The David Beckham Academy in London’s Greenwich and declares it “a good laugh”. Here, Adidas is launching its World Cup assault on the nation’s pocket money, with a sort of celebrity soccer version of It’s A Knockout. Fifteen teams, each comprising a Premiership captain and celebrities from TV, sports and music, plus kids from Beckham’s school for would-be footballing greats, slug it out over various novelty tasks. One involves putting a blindfolded teammate inside a giant ball and guiding them round an assault course by means of shouting. The whole thing is being filmed for Channel 4.Ralf Little wanders past looking a bit lost Jonny Wilkinson dispenses tactics from the touchline.

Beckham himself jogs about, grinning and signing the backs of shirts. Is he a Lady Sovereign fan? “Yes, of course,” he beams, giving the thumbs up. “Isn’t everyone?”Adidas and Sovereign have a mutually beneficial relationship (the chorus of “Hoodie” inviting everyone to “Fling on an Adidas hoodie/ And just boogie woogie with me”; she never has to buy a pair of sneakers again) yet Adidas’ “strictly for sports” manifesto means they stop short of actually sponsoring her (or any non-athlete). Yet, it might have been: at 13, Sovereign had trials for “loads” of women’s football teams, though it may not surprise you to learn she bunked off her invitation to try out for Arsenal’s ladies’ side.Vernon Kay, the TV celeb in Sovereign’s team, gathers his players for a to-camera link.”I see from the leaderboard that Shaun Wright-Phillips’ team is leading with 19 points. If my GCSE maths is correct we need just seven to be top,” he mugs.