The simple workout that will stop snoring

It is a common and sometimes embarrassing sleep complaint. But is there an easy solution?

Mike Dilkes is the patron saint of snorers: a clinical beacon guiding us poor souls suffering interrupted sleep, harangued by sharp-elbowed loved ones and the butt of many a joke.

But snoring is not funny. It ruins relationships, destroys careers and, in its most extreme form, it can kill; which is why Dilkes, consultant ENT surgeon at London's Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth, wants us to wake up and smell the coffee.