Little transformation for BBC's cost-cutter

Yet more news of the BBC's "Transformation Engagement and Simplicity Project Lead", aka cost-cutter, Jane McCloskey. Monkey fans will remember the DQF enforcer, who the BBC says is "preparing the organisation at all levels for change and promoting an effective implementation of the strategy". She recently asked for more transparency over pay, but was too coy to reveal her own salary. A simian cousin with a long memory recalls seeing McCloskey in another guise, when she was regional director for ITV West and West Country in 2009 and quizzed about cuts there. At the time she was also interviewed by BBC regional show Inside Out South West, about the public's reaction to ITV launching a new, slimmed-down regional service. Now of course she is at the BBC and implementing the proposals which include, er … slimming down regional show Inside Out. How times have changed.