More bad news for Frank Gilbride

News reaches me that the staff at Cover Story - Frank Gilbride’s features operation in Northern Ireland - have finally lost the will to live and resigned en masse.

Awright, there were only two of them, so the reality is that they have resigned en deux, en brace or en both.

Whatever way you pronounce it, this isn’t very en sweet (aye, dreadful pun, I know) for Mr Gilbride who has already consigned his Newsflash empire to the crapper.

Now, far be it from me to engage in gossip, tittle-tattle or general scutwork and scurril (naw, seriously) but the moles in the camp say this wasn’t a planned shutdown.

Rather the Norren Iren pair simply could no longer bear to work for Frank in the wake of  the unpleasant treatment meted out to their former colleagues at Newsflash in Edinburgh.

As a reminder, the staff (including 15 year veterean Jenny Morrison and eight-year loyal time served Photographer Callum Moffatt) were summoned in on a Friday afternoon and told their jobs were being shed. Immediately.

Oh aye, I nearly forgot: the one-time hugely profitable business had reached such parlous straits (without any prior signs or warning) that they’d all be expected to leave with no pay-off, no wages and no expenses. Charming.

Wherefore now for Frank? Any suggestions gratefully received.