Solicitors are often able to make a few bob by swearing oaths.

But East Sussex firm Housing Law Services has been raising cash through an altogether different type of swearing.

The firm introduced a ‘swear box’ over Lent, and raised an impressive £100.60 for Demelza Hospice Care for Children – though tactfully it has declined to reveal the amount charged per cuss.

Were there different sums payable according to the grade of expletive, Obiter wonders – though principal Tim Crook is at pains to point out that ‘any swearing within the office is mild and would definitely not be found offensive by the man on the Clapham omnibus’ (or, from the look of the picture, the man in the pink camper van).