Britain's milkmen keep tradition afloat

Diversifying products and embracing sales on the Internet have reinvigorated a very British institution

Once a daily sight on every British street, a dwindling but resilient band of milkmen still go out at the crack of dawn to deliver bottles of fresh milk to the nation's doorsteps.

The overwhelming majority of milk used to be sold at the front door until the supermarket revolution all but wiped out this very British institution.