UK: Party fever is surviving in the face of recession.

As the threat of global recession hangs heavily over the economy and the season of festivity approaches, how is British industry responding?

Will that most conspicuous of corporate frivolities - the staff Christmas party - fall victim to the corporate cost-cutters?

'There's no evidence of cuts as far as we can see,' says Ian Fraser, general manager of banqueting and catering at the Natural History Museum.