Record numbers of people have accepted university places through Clearing this year, according to official statistics.

Despite the race for a university place slowing, 1,355 more people have accepted places since Friday.

One day this week student Harry Peters* dropped by his local Sainsbury's in Edinburgh to get his evening meal. But unlike every other shopper that evening, Peters didn't go through the supermarket's front door. Instead he went round the back of the store and salvaged some packaged sandwiches, ready meals and other essential food items from a giant bin.

Peters is a freegan. The word freegan is a blend of "free" and "vegan". Devotees of freeganism seek to make a political statement by rescuing edible food and perfectly good household items from supermarket bins and skips respectively.