When Chris Holmes decided to resign from the UK's troubled Border Agency, he did so in style.

He sent his boss a cake with his resignation written in icing as a decoration:

To The Management,

Border Force, Stanstead:

Today is my 31st birthday, and having recently become a father I now reralise how precious life is and how important it is to spend my time doing something that makes me, and other people happy.

For that reason I hearby give notice of my resignation, in or...