Prime retail space in lively high streets and shopping centres—especially big inner-city ones, such as St David’s 2, which opened in Cardiff on October 22nd—is in great demand.

David Darg, a medical relief worker in Haiti, told the BBC he had visited an area near Saint-Marc which - according to local residents - was the source of the outbreak.

Earlier, actor Warwick Davis, who plays Griphook in the Deathly Hollows movie, led the Hogwarts Frog Choir, a musical group made up of Hogwarts students and six singing frog puppets.