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Yesterday morning's BBC News lead, about an anonymous NHS boss asking for a BBC journalist's help to contact Burberry and others about making protective hospital gowns, was wrong. The caller was not an NHS boss.

Somewhere in the BBC Business Unit, there's a copy of the Editorial Guidelines. "Any proposal to rely on a single unnamed source making a serious allegation or to grant anonymity to a significant contributor making a serious allegation must be referred to Director Editorial Policy and Standards and Programme Legal Advice." Was it ?