By the logic suggested by this piece of promising research that shows how alcohol can actually help your memory, a city with no last call -- that's us! -- should be a mnemonic juggernaut of recollecting might!

'Alcohol diminishes our ability to hold on to pieces of information like your colleague's name, or the definition of a word, or where you parked your car this morning. 

'But our subconscious is learning and remembering too, and alcohol may actually increase our capacity to learn, or "conditionability", at that level.'

Mr Morikawa's study, results of which were published last month in The Journal of Neuroscience, found that repeated exposure to ethanol enhances synaptic plasticity in a key area in the brain.