Making the most of the Sun...

Yesterday, the Sun featured a plumber, plasterer and builder talking about how the credit crunch has hit them. Cue BBC Radio 5 Live ringing up to ask for their phone numbers. The Sun newsdesk is quoted in today's The Whip column saying: "Some muppet called Alison from BBC Radio 5 Live's Wake Up to Money rang and asked us for the numbers of these tradesmen. It left us incredulous that the BBC, which has so many staff and so much taxpayer's money, can't even flip open the Yellow Pages but has to come to us instead." Even quicker, "Alison" could have just walked outside her own office and asked one of the tradesmen working on refurbishing Broadcasting House.