Wicked whiskers

You tend to expect a pretty straight take on financial news from Reuters. However, Kirstin Ridley, the wire service's European telecoms correspondent, clearly wanted to flex her writing muscles today with a decidedly unorthodox intro announcing the resignation of O2 boss Peter Erskine: "Moustachioed Peter Erskine, a top executive at Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica who an analyst once dubbed 'the man to restore faith in facial hair', is resigning from his day-to-day managing role next year." Monkey can confirm: Erskine does have a 'tache, and a kind of genial bank manager look going on. But somehow it didn't really seem that important.