Monster madness

How excited the good folk at Portsmouth firm Coffin Mew & Clover must have been when the number of hits on their Web site (www.coffinmew.co.uk) shot up recently.

E-commerce was coming to Hampshire in a big way, they surely thought.

Sadly not the case, however.

Anyone unlucky enough to have a child obsessed by Pokmon (and there must be many) will know that Mew is one of the main characters in the recent Pokmon film.

Marketing partner Keith Hayward reports: 'Our analysis indicates that we have had youngsters from all over the world visiting the site looking for the elusive creature Mew.

Quite what they make our our site I am not too sure.

However, some of these visits haven't just stopped at our opening page; they have carried on looking for Mew.

One can only assume that they feel it could be hidden amongst our pages.' Mr Hayward said he hoped that when these Net heads are old enough to need legal advice, they will remember the time they read all about south coast probate services and the like.

The words 'optimistic' and 'wildly' spring to mind.