One year on, the face of Prescott's racy Miss Tracey

She was the bubbly blonde who romped with John Prescott.

But a year after her affair with the Deputy Prime Minister was exposed, Tracey Temple cuts a less flamboyant figure.

Puffing on a cigarette during her lunch break, the 44-yearold former diary secretary who once favoured bright-red trousers and killer heels was content to wear sensible shoes and a raincoat.

Her peroxide tresses have reverted to their natural dark shade.

However, she hasn't given up the scarlet lipstick and nail polish.

Although the affair cemented his position as a national laughing stock, 68-year-old Mr Prescott managed to keep his salary, his job and his wife.

But it cost Miss Temple her relationship of eight years with her boyfriend, Barrie Williams.

She was initially shunted off to Westminster University to work for six months as secretary to the personnel chief.

But earlier this year, she returned to the Deputy Prime Minister's old lair, renamed the Department for Communities and Local Government, and now run by Ruth Kelly.

As part of the deal, she is banned from working with ministers.