WAG gives Foreign Office travel tips

In what may seem an unlikely pairing, WAG Charlotte Meares, fiance of Jermain Defoe, has been selected by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to promote sensible behaviour while on holiday to Brits abroad.

In an online travel guide, 22-year-old Charlotte gives British travellers common-sense tips, including taking the contact details of embassies and consulates overseas with you in case anything goes awry.

"It is amazing how many things can go wrong when you are travelling," mused Charlotte, whose advice on shopping, transporting cosmetics and drink spiking is presumably directed primarily at British women.

Sample tips include: "One tumble off a bar table in your Jimmy Choos without insurance could cost you £20,000 worth of shopping money on your hospital bill!"

Nevertheless, Charlotte seems to have done her research and come up with some genuinely original pieces of advice, such as avoiding a camouflage bikini in the Caribbean, where camouflage is apparently illegal.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, meanwhile, is clearly convinced that ordinary British holidaymakers are in dire need of the advice, as a spokesperson declared: "These pages are the most used part of the website, getting hundreds of thousands of hits."

Charlotte's guide can be found here, on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office website.