I tested 9 popular sore throat remedies – the best eased my symptoms in seconds and the effects lasted 4 hours

WHEN I feel a sore throat coming, I just know I’m going to get ill.

It starts with a light tickle then develops into an agonising scratchiness that makes it painful to swallow.

This can last for days on end before my other inevitable symptoms – coughing, a headache and a fever – arrive.

But is there anything you can do to ease your sore throat in that awful in between time? I set out to find out.

As soon as I clocked mine coming...