Anniversary time

How will the BBC - which loves anniversaries - mark the 65th birthday of its Creative Director, Alan Yentob, this Saturday ?

There is a belief that he's already made some preparation for this older age, and may be drawing a BBC pension as well as his salary, based on a pot which has been growing for nearly 44 years. He has 2619 shares in United Business Media, currently recovering nicely at 599p each; he owns 10% of the family fabric firm Dewhurst Dent, which, in turn, owns Dents Gloves and Corgi knitwear. 

And now daughter Bella, 16, looks to be embarking on a modelling career, which may keep the old man in designer bicycle clips. She's started at the top with a feature in British Vogue.

Last month, she was on Alan's arm for a Mulberry party at the Savile Club.