More vacancies

So farewell, Donalda MacKinnon, standing down as Thought Leader BBC Scotland later this year. She will be 60 in December, and has been in post four years, and thirty three years overall with Auntie.

She's secured millions more in spending for Pacific Quay, but never enough to satisfy the Nats, for whom BBC Scotland has Quisling status. Cynics might note she's announced her intended departure  just before the first anniversary of the BBC Scotland channel, which has hardly roared away from the starting blocks in terms of audience figures.

Now Donalda can concentrate more on her previously unpaid work as company secretary of Cafe Gandolfi and Gandolfi Fish, the Glasgow eateries led by husband Seumas, and run by their two sons.

Can the Gàidhealtachd keep control ?  Both Donalda and her predecessor Ken MacQuarrie have the language, and came to the job via educational programming.  Maybe the headhunters will be pointed in that direction....