Con you believe he turned up?

To last Thursday's leaving party for long-standing - and recently sacked - Telegraph foreign desk staffers Paul Hill and Patsy Dryden. Who should be in attendance but the Telegraph's shortest-serving foreign editor Con Coughlin. The man responsible for a host of controversial lay-offs during his time in charge of the desk. Tension anybody? The atmosphere was relieved only by former Sunday Telegraph foreign editor, Robin Gedye, who told Coughlin: "You've got a fucking cheek showing your face here." Red-faced, Coughlin responded, "Oh and why is that?" "Because you sacked half the people in this room and most of them would fucking love to deck you. Why don't you leave?" There followed, as they say, scenes of wild delight as Coughlin made his exit.