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The government's culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has appointed two non-executive members to Ofcom's board. Britain's communications watchdog said Dame Patricia Hodgson had quit her position at the BBC Trust to join Ofcom's board at the start of next month. She had failed to bag the chairman and vice-chairman roles at Aunties …

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  1. b166er

    Nice

    I reckon Cornwall and the Scilly Isles will be getting superfast broadband then :D

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Go

    Yes but...

    has Ed Richards gone?

    Please, say it is so.

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Facepalm

    Quango musical chairs

    The music's stopped - everyone sit down.

    Dame Brindley DBE has also sat on:

    - Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Public Records 1992-98

    - Joint Information Systems Committee HEFCE 1992-98

    - International Committee on Social Sciences Info UNESCO 1992-97

    - The Research Resources Board ESRC 1997-

    - The Library and Information Commission DCMS 1999-2000

    - The Stanford University Advisory Council for Libraries and Information Resources 1999-

    - The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council 2003-

    - The Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property 2008-

    - The Arts & Humanities Research Council 2008-

    - The Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property 2008-

    - The Electronic Libraries HEFCE Review of Higher Education Libraries 1992-93

    ... and has 16 honorary degrees and fellowships. According to Debretts.

    For someone who has never had a job outside the British Library, hasn't she done well?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Pirate

      She sounds like "a safe pair of hands", doesn't she?

      After all, it's all about the handshake, innit.

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