Pesto tastes wrath of Telegraph

Ignorance is bliss – before it is shattered. The Daily Telegraph has remained uncomfortably silent about being scooped by its former employee, the BBC's Robert Peston, earlier this week. Until today. Tim Walker's Mandrake column gives the Sunday Telegraph's former City editor both barrels this morning, starting with the headline: "BBC's thief in chief". "It is, to say the least, ill-mannered of Robert Peston to break the Daily Telegraph's stories before we have published them. Still, he has form," it begins. "When Pesto was a Fleet Street business editor, he used to inveigle the newspaper vendors at King's Cross into supplying him with early copies of the Sunday Times's business section, which was printed the day before the main paper. He would then plunder its stories and pass them off as his own newspaper's." Ooh, err. Over to you, Pesto.