The More Cardinals on site, the merrier

If Latham can't help you, maybe God will. That seems to be the maxim of Ian Lawson, md of St Albans-based construction group Bickerton.

To ensure that no unholy alliances could be forged on a new œ3 million school building for St Thomas More comprehensive in Chelsea, he brought in Cardinal Basil Hume, head of the Roman Catholic Church in Great Britain. Who needs a statutory regulatory framework for construction when the contract's arbitrator is the Almighty?