
Read this: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/opinion/bbc-severance-row-corporations-big-beasts-lord-patten-and-mark-thompson-

Summary: At the heart of the latest row over pay-offs is the relationship between Lord Patten and the former Director-General. The Trust has dismissed Thompsons analysis in a witness statement as a bizarre document. Thompson had been planning to move on but Lord Patten set the process in motion with an interview in The Times in January 2012 in which he revealed that headhunters had been appointed to find a replacement. - independent.co.uk
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