…but old Timer makes us pant

Without advertising there would never be a newspaper. Who should know more about that than the editor of The Times, Peter Stothard?

His first job after leaving college was working as a trainee account holder for Leo Burnett, where he got his teeth stuck into the Cadbury account.

The Diary would like to see him in fuschia-pink hot pants doing the limbo.

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