Invoices and sales receipts also appear to confirm that the objects are illicit.

The book lavishes attention on practical concerns such as deadlines, contract negotiations, steady production, and sales receipts.

As one shareholder tells me, with the shares worth a few pence, 'the cost of selling them would exceed the sale receipts for many people'.

They say that government funding, combined with the sales receipts, will enable housing associations to fund one-forone replacement in the same area where homes are sold.