They often say that lawyers do not make good businesspeople, but now we have evidence to the contrary. A not-remotely-disgusted solicitor from Tunbridge Wells has become the town’s entrepreneur of the year. Pam Loch, name partner at employment law firm Loch Associates, emerged as the winner from a gruelling four-stage competition which was based on TV shows The Apprentice and Dragons’ Den. Her final challenge was to lead a team of fellow professionals, including solicitor Jonathan Roberts of Tonbridge firm Warners, in a bid to remarket the iconic spacehopper (pictured). Readers who were once children, and that must be just about all of you, will recall that a space-hopper is a reinforced rubber ball with two earlike handles which small people grab on to and go bouncing along, with a happy smile on their cherubic faces. Loch rebranded this childhood delight as an eco-friendly form of transport for grown-ups, made from recycled materials, which could provide a carbon-free way of travelling to work. Though we can’t guarantee it would be methane-free. It could even maximise time efficiency, too. ‘You could sit on it at your desk,’ she explains, ‘and then use it to hop off to lunch or a seminar. It’s cost-saving – you only use one chair all day – and it’s good for posture and bad backs.’ Any readers out there now planning to ditch their car in favour of balancing precariously on a giant-sized beach ball, we wish you luck. But it’s hard to imagine Sir Alan Sugar doing it.