What with the financial world staring into an abyss, a critical US presidential election and The X Factor back on telly, you wouldn’t have thought it was a particularly good time to get away for your average City lawyer.

Not so at The Diary’s favourite firm Ashurst. Owing to concerns that a lavish partner weekend in say, Cannes, would not set an appropriate example, the firm appears to have branched out into the leafy Hampshire market with the launch of Ashurst camping ground (pictured).