Irish eyes wages of sin for holiday money

A FEMALE investment boss at the FundForum bunfight in Monaco that wound up yesterday decided to find out more about the annoying hookers prowling outside the conference venues.

Expecting an east European growl when she approached one, she was shocked to hear an Irish lilt and the following story: “I don’t always work as a prostitute, but I’m here on holiday and fancied a bit of spending money. I’ll probably sleep with someone anyway, so I might as well find some businessman who’ll pay me for it.”

Spy suspects most of the blushing delegates would be more likely to try flogging her an ISA.

KEEP your eyes peeled for Clive Black’s next prognosis on Ocado. The online grocer’s fiercest critic and Shore Capital analyst has been staunch in his view since its flotation. But things might just have got awkward, the Liverpool-based firm has snared a big beast of a client, becoming house broker to Morrisons. That’ll be the supermarket which last year began offering an online grocery service using, um, Ocado.