Hard fax

Colleges Employers Forum chief Roger Ward likes to be known as a grand talker. When the man who spent the eve of his wedding in constant negotiation with Natfhe officials decided to treat his patient partner to a week-long break in St Lucia, someone should have warned the sleepy sunshine isle.

Two days into Roger's stay, his hotel was frantically searching for more paper for its over-heating fax machine. At the end of his little break his phone/fax tab came to Pounds 1,000.