Five rings, four letters at the Express

The top brass at Express Newspapers and officials at the National Union of Journalists have been holding a series of face-to-face meetings over the past 24 hours to try to settle the pay strike. This has resulted in Express proprietor Richard Desmond going mano a mano with NUJ general secretary Jeremy Dear for talks that have been described as a "swearing Olympics". So maybe Desmondo hasn't invited you to have a bash on his drum kit, eh Jeremy?