Years roll by...

Alan Yentob is 67 today. As soon as I find out where the party is, I'll let you know.

Is he the oldest member of staff ? I doubt it, but there's a widening age gap to middle managers below. Once again, BBC students of demographics and pension changes will notice that a lot of late 50s/early 60s colleagues have been holding farewell parties as the new financial year approaches.  Could it have anything to do with changes to the lifetime allowance defining the tax-advantaged pension savings that an individual can accumulate over their career ? From April, the limit is cut from £1.5m to £1.25m.

• One soon-to-be-former BBC employee Lucy Adams is a long way from whatever pension she accumulated with Auntie. So it's little surprise she's topping up income with another keynote HR speech, this time at the 9th Annual Congress of the Strategic HR Network (created by an events company called Middleton Burgess as a networking opportunity, and now run as a stand-alone firm). It's a one day event tomorrow in London (delegate cost £699 + VAT) and Lucy's on at 1600.