Your place or Tyne

With his dodgy moustache, Lacoste T-shirt and useless chat-up lines, Viz cartoon character Sid The Sexist seemed to sum up the clichèd Geordie man.

However, a new survey suggests that Newcastle man is no longer hopeless with women - the city has been named the one-night stand capital of Britain.

More than four out of ten men and women on Tyneside go out looking for casual sex, narrowly ahead of those from Manchester and London and well above the national average of 37 per cent.

Birmingham trailed in last, with just a quarter saying they were interested in a night of meaningless passion.

But Geordie folk were the least likely to go on a blind date, with those from Leicester and Coventry most likely to try a 'Cilla'.

The poll of 1,000 people also revealed some bizarre bedroom habits, with four in ten couples admitting to 'experimenting' with fruit between the sheets.

About one in six people were happy to move in on someone they fancied - even if they were already attached, researchers from drinks maker H2 found.