Ladies and Gentlemen, this has been a riot

Ladies and Gentlemen, this has been a riot, but the time has come to say goodbye. We're all alive, so what more can I tell you? There is a handy email alert service available here which will notify you of the various prophesised doomsdays as they come and, inevitably, go. I really thought this was the one you know? Oh well.

I've been Joel Gunter, and I leave you with a final dispatch from Henry Samuel, who ventured bravely to Bugarach to hang out with a load of other journalists and a handful of lunatics at the end of the world, and survived. Bravo, Henry.

^{This really does look a little bit like the end of the world, doesn't it? (picture: JULIAN SIMMONDS)}