WHAT'S in a name? Three bottles of champagne, it seems, for newly-merged York solicitors Ware & Kay.

The amalgamation of Ware Peters and Newbald Kay presented no difficulties when it came to a new monicker for the organisation, but when it came to naming its newly-built headquarters there were difficulties.

The clock-towered modern building opposite the MAFF offices in Peasholme Green was at first dubbed Postern House, but the Royal Mail cried foul.

There was already a Postern House in York - a residential address in Postern Close.

So a bottle of champagne was offered by bosses of the new practice for the best name - but with 30 suggestions from the more than 50 partners and staff at its offices in York and Wetherby, the bubbly count went up to three.

Winner was associate solicitor Susan Proctor, 29, who alsom hapopend to be president of the York Junior Chamber of Commerce. Her suggestion: Sentinel House.

She said: "The idea for the name came because it is so near the Bar walls. I thought the new building was like a sentry post, hence Sentinel as a person on guard. It sounds appropriate, befitting of offices for solicitors.

Other bubbly-winning suggestions came from Sue Taylor - Foss House - and Mary Buxton who suggested Bridge House.

Originally the partners preferred Foss Bridge House, but enter the Royal Mail again.

These are the words used by York ironmongers FR Stubbs for its store at the bridge end of Fossgate.