Leaving trunk

Just ten days before HR Director Lucy Adams leaves the BBC. She told the FT last week she was on a five-year contract, starting in June 2009, so perhaps, just perhaps, she always intended to move on, developing what she calls her "eclectic" CV.

"I had no idea when the opportunity came up to join the BBC of the press intrusion on the doorstep, the freedom of information requests flooding in at the rate of 30 a day – or that I would be termed ‘the designer clad pay-off queen’."

There's apparently still time to contribute, in cash or electronically, to her leaving present to give her something really nice. Alongside £1.6m in salary and other benefits over 4 years and 10 months.