MORE TAXIS...CONTINUED

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Sometime between 10-11 am, the story of the next pair of Labour ex-ministers caught offering themselves as cabbies finally appeared on the BBC News website (last on parade): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8591485.stm
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It is now the third-placed story on the Politics page. I will keep checking as the afternoon goes on and see how soon it slips down the running order and when it vanishes.
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It bears the standard wording of a BBC website headline whenever Labour MPs gets accused of scandalous behaviour:
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******Ex-ministers deny wrongdoing over lobbying claims
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Why not 'More Labour ex-ministers accused of wrongdoing over lobbying'?
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History is repeating itself. Once again the BBC begins by ignoring the story, if it's a story that's unhelpful to Labour. (The always-worth-reading Beeboidal on the Biased BBC website did find a mention of it buried away near the bottom of the website's review of the Sunday papers). Then it moves on to stage two. Having to report the story, it does so later than anyone else and presents it as a story of Labour (though they usually avoid that word in any headline) denying wrongdoing. The denial is placed front stage, not the accusations. There are two block quotes placed to the right of the article, each from one of the two Labour 'wrongdoers' - again, their denials are quoted and placed front stage.
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If the story continues to grow, it will doubtless be time for the BBC to get Mark Easton to pull a rabbit out of the hat again, as he did last Monday. Has he a spare rabbit to hand?
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Spin, spin, and yet more spin from the biased BBC.
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UPDATE Mon 29/3 7.15am Well, the story is still on the Politics page, hanging on by its fingertips (the next to last on the right hand column). A couple more nudges and it will fall into oblivion (doubtless some time this morning), never to be heard of again.