IF you've got a spare £25,000 you can, apparently, have Bolton comic Peter Kay at your corporate do.

He is among a whole clutch of A list stars for hire. A sliding scale is involved with people like Tom Jones, Peter and Lulu at one end and Christine Hamilton and newscaster Fiona Armstrong at the other on a £1,000 to £2,500 asking price.

Personally, while Peter would be very welcome at any prestigious local event, I'd pay good money to know that politician Steven Norris (C list) was definitely somewhere else.