LONDON -- If somebody offered you a job which paid £30,000 a week and one of the stipulations was that you had to give up alcohol for a certain period of time, would it be too much of an imposition on your freedom?

Christopher Davies

Each week you would earn £30,000 -- a year's salary or more for many -- and the concession was that perhaps apart from a short period during the summer your idea of a double was two orange juices or the finish in a game of darts.