Huw Edwards, who fronts the BBC's 'Ten O'Clock News', worked hard for his money at last week's St Paul Traveler's annual 'On risk' conference, being more engaged and active in the chair than one often sees with personalities who front legal events. It was the second year he had done the conference and he began proceedings by getting possibly the biggest laugh of the day when he said, without a visible tongue in his cheek: 'I'm back because I enjoyed it last year.' The single thought that went round the 100-strong audience was that it might have had more to do with the no doubt fat fee he was being paid. He then could not fail to make reference to the recent furore over how much newsreaders get paid, talking about 'my small newsreader's brain, as John Humphreys would say'. Then with a cheeky smile, he added: 'That's John Humphreys the dwarf, of course.'