News Corp board hot off the press

The News Corporation global board today rolled into News International's giant and undeniably impressive Broxbourne printing plant today for their quarterly board meeting. News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch and the rest of the board were treated to a guided tour of the facility, which replaced Wapping, just to see where the £350m they approved to spend on it went. Those present included Rupe's sons James, chief executive News Corp Europe and Asia, and Lachlan. News Corp chief operating office and heir apparent Peter Chernin, former British Airways chief executive Rod Eddington and former News International chairman Andrew Knight are also board members as is José María Aznar, former president of Spain. Present also, presumably, was Natalie Bancroft, the youngest member of the board by a country mile and a junior member of the Bancroft family who sold Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal to News Corporation last year. An opera singer by profession, whether she treated fellow board members to the Jewel Song from Faust, Monkey was unable to determine.