More revelations from the Ashurst command bunker this week, as leveraged finance king and one-man peace-keeping force Mark Vickers continues to have Hans Blix sobbing into his smorgasbord.

Just in case his Saracen armoured personnel carrier proves insufficiently robust to withstand the school run, former Territorial Army man Vickers also has a helicopter pilot licence for those beat-the-traffic moments. Apparently his 12-year-old daughter is also fast becoming something of a expert, benefiting from a worrying lack of age restrictions on junior pilots.