Michael Le Vell (pictured) has said he ‘might have a holiday’ before any return to Coronation Street after he was cleared of the charges at Manchester Crown Court.

Bosses at consortium Nuclear Management Partners (NMP), which helps run Sellafield in Cumbria, also used the perk to pay for flights to the US Masters golf tournament and Amazon purchases without receipts.

Janice Hadlow – who earns £235,000 as the head of BBC2 – revealed that the new controller of BBC1 Charlotte Moore may soon take Bake Off away from her channel.

Speaking publicly for the first time since his £2.4million report was published, Nick Pollard admitted he failed to get to the bottom of the affair.

Save the Children increased performance-related pay to executives by a third compared to the previous year, a move that could prove controversial following criticism of the huge pay-packets enjoyed by charity bosses.

It is hoped the runway would open to the south of the airport near Crawley, West Sussex, and would be less noisy than an extra runway at Heathrow.

BBC bosses panicked when they received the first draft of ‘Burton and Taylor’ which will be broadcast tomorrow night on BBC Four because it contained 49 different uses of the F word as well as a reference to the c word.

The five top directors of the taxpayer-funded track operator were branded ‘fat controllers’ presiding over crowded trains, late-running services and inflation-busting fares.

Despite multiple warnings about Morecambe Bay hospitals, a Care Quality Commission inspection gave the trust the all-clear in 2010.

The new criminal offence would make sure that top executives paid for their ‘shocking and widespread malpractice’, the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards said.