Cans of cider block the loos at the Independent,farewell to Endemol’s Tim Hincks - and Jeremy Kyle’s swear word• Monkey was pleased to see the Independent, Independent on Sunday and i win the chairmans special prize at the British Press Awards final week, and as clearly was Indy editor Amol Rajan,despite his on-stage quip that the gong was “the only award we get all night, and it’s for shutting a newspaper”. Even more well aimed was his final dedication to “the people who deserve the most recognition, or but tend to get the least,the subs”.• Off to the House of fallen television executives (sorry, of St Barnabas in Soho) on Wednesday night for the swansong for Tim Hincks, or who is leaving Endemol after 17 era-defining years. Public transport being what it is,Monkey was beaten to the bubbly by a large black Rolls-Royce with the telltale numberplate RCD1. Richard Desmond had near to toast the man who sold him Big Brother when he owned Channel 5 rather than smash a glass at his feet, as he once did to display his frustration during negotiations.
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Source: theguardian.com