Drumming up business

The City of London Solicitors Company provided a useful aide memoir about what they do to the new Lord Mayor of London last weekend during the Lord Mayor's show.

The float, pictured here passing Mansion House, illustrated the kaleidoscope of work City solicitors carry out while a Blues Brothers-style band played on and various women lawyers pranced around.

No doubt the reminder was much needed by the Lord Mayor, a certain Gavyn Arthur, a barrister at 2 Harcourt Buildings.

Rumours that he got very excited as the float trundled by and shouted 'Give us an instruction' are, we are assured, entirely false.