This is an extraordinary story in the Times's City Diary. Anybody else would be taking the Savills agents out for a well-earned slap-up lunch after sealing the £2.9m deal. Barry McKay is apparently less than delighted, and accuses Savills of misleading him over the identity of the buyer... a property developer called John Morris, who appears to have some history with Mr McKay.

McKay claims that he explicitly did not want his family home sold to Morris, who now has planning permission to build on it. He says that if he had known the identity of the ultimate owner, he would have demanded a higher price.

The house in question is in Sunningdale... a posh enclave of Berkshire, close to London.

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