The dastardly Mr Deedes

Bearded entertainer Noel edmonds has fired off an angry missive to antiquated Lloyds chairman Lord (Norman) Blackwell over the bank’s inaction on the hBOS fraud saga, which he says destroyed his £70m business empire. he demands an urgent meeting with the chairman to demonstrate how so many lives have been ruined by the scandal. Perhaps as penance, Blackwell should be wheeled on to odd fish edmonds’ baffling quiz show, Deal Or No Deal. Watching Stormin’ Norman, 64, bamboozled by the show’s incomprehensible rules and naff production values, might give hBOS victims a cheer if nothing else. What now for Sports Direct’s only female board member, former stockbroker Claire Jenkins, who recently stood down over her frustration at being unable to influence the actions of the

controversial retailer. She plans to devote herself to charitable work assisting prisoners on death row, whose daily plight of horror and despair some consider comparable to working in one of Sports Direct’s troubled warehouses. Shortly before rob Scott was promoted to chief executive of homebase earlier this year, the gangly former Olympic rower

was buttonholed by royal Bank of Scotland boss, and fellow antipodean, ross Mcewan. he’d recently bought a kitchen from homebase. Not a happy experience at all, complained Mcewan. With taxpayer-owned rBS’s losses last year at £7bn, was £3.8m-ayear ross, 59, well placed to dole out such pointed critiques? Best appointment of the week comes from former John Lewis boss and now

mayor of West Midlands Andy Street, the man responsible for introducing the store’s slushy Christmas advert, who’s announced his deputy. His name? Bob Sleigh. Green’s oyster bar, for over 30 years a favoured Mayfair nosebag centre for Sir Martin Sorrell, the Saatchi brothers and legions of the Braeburn-cheeked trenchermen, has finally been demolished as it makes way for a £100m office block. Surveying the rubble, the restaurant’s lachrymose owner Simon Parker Bowles, 75, sobs: ‘I can still hear my great friend John King telling Margaret Thatcher how he would turn around the fortunes of British airways…’