If your date of birth was 1 January 1980, you share it with US wrestler Randy Orton and Swedish model Elin Nordegren (pictured). And many thousands of English solicitors. The chief executive of the Solicitors Regulation Authority, Antony Townsend, revealed this week that one of the bugs being encountered in the implementation of the SRA’s new mySRA system is its inability to cope with any other entry in the date of birth field.

The Gazette’s house geek suspects the culprit is an operating system called DOS, which operates in an ‘epoch’ from 1 January 1980 to 31 December 2099. We trust the SRA will have it sorted by then.