Such is Robert Peston's ubiquity across the BBC's news output that Monkey hears management is giving serious consideration to renaming their news channel Peston 24. And when the BBC's business editor isn't on screen, his colleagues are bigging him up. "The merger talks first revealed by the BBC," announced Huw Edwards on BBC1's 10pm news bulletin last night. "The plan, revealed by the BBC ... our business editor Robert Peston, who broke the story …" You get the idea. As if Peston couldn't manage it by himself. "I have got an extraordinary exclusive story …" Peston told the BBC News channel earlier in the day. The business editor's presenting style is famously not to everyone's taste, and it would be slightly unfair to dissect his presenting style on a minute-by-minute basis. Having said that ... Is there something rather amusing about the way he says "prosperity"? And we love the double eye roll, after 10:30. "I'm becoming a bit of a needle stuck in a record," Peston told Edwards. Never, Rob-o. The very thought!
