The Diary is constantly being bombarded with press releases from breathless law firms boasting about the legal work they have done for this or that vaguely glamourous 'B' list celebrity client.

So it made a refreshing change to receive a missive from the IP firm Bristows in which it celebrated a truly groundbreaking laminate flooring patent victory.

Now call us old fashioned, but given the choice between yet another airhead celeb's libel victory and a good old fashioned roll your sleeves up laminate flooring court win, and we'll take the latter any day.

After all, it is on such nitty-gritty, down to earth, back to basics stuff that this great nation of ours was built.

And, let's face it, where would this country be without those "snap-fit tongue and groove profiles" which allow laminate flooring panels to be joined without the need for "glue or metal clasps".