Hill and Dryden off with a bang

Amazing scenes yesterday at the Telegraph Media Group as foreign news desk fixer Paul Hill left after 37 years. Hill and his colleague Patsy Dryden - a mere 19 years' service - were the latest victims of budget cuts at TMG. As Hill left, his colleagues on the foreign desk started to bang him out - the traditional printers' farewell that involves thumping the desk as loudly as possible. According to reports the whole of the Telegraph's vast multimedia newsroom, said to be the largest in Europe, was shaking as staff banged out yet another colleague. They'll be getting sore palms.