News boss sees the funny side

More light has been shed on the Cuddlegate rumpus (see Monkey, below) in which wags defaced a seating plan for the BBC's new integrated newsroom. So we already know that the "huddle zone" became the "cuddle zone" - Monkey still doesn't know why it wasn't just called a "meeting area". But there's more: the "editorial hotspot" - Monkey doesn't know what this is either - was turned into the "G-spot", while radio newsroom editor Richard Clark's office was labelled "Radiohead". Monkey has been assured that the powers that be within BBC News do have a sense of humour about the incident. In his new year email to staff - sent five days before director Mark Thompson's, natch - head of the newsroom Peter Horrocks congratulated the "anonymous winners of the plans amendments competition, who made some imaginative and carefully produced alterations". Sounding suspiciously like a head teacher trying to prove his groovy credentials to his pupils, Horrocks added: "Their smart handiwork is now on display in my office. This competition is now over."