TALKING of diversification, tonight we reveal how Ashley Clark has taken the considerable career leap from farmer to computer games wizard. What Old Macdonald would have made of it is anyone's guess. Mr Clark has swapped traditional livestock for a mouse: with a click, click here, and a click, click there he has built an impressive software business.

This is certainly a more optimistic story than those we told earlier this month of North Yorkshire farmers who have been reduced to cleaning toilets for a living. Mr Clark has reaped real rewards by leaving the tractor behind and motoring away on his hard drive.