Kirsty News fright

THE zany yet entertaining Robert Peston’s new late-night ITV politics show is trouncing Newsnight with an average of 500,000 viewers compared to 344,000 for the Beeb’s show.

So why on earth is Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark, the most miserable woman on TV, 2-1 favourite to take the chair from David Dimbleby on Question Time? Is the BBC really planning to replace one curmudgeonly presenter who’s past his sell-by date with another?