The Scottish hacks who want to turn gamekeeper

Westminster villager Guido Fawkes strayed a little onto FleetStreetBlues' patch this week with a fantastic nugget on the Scottish newspaper journalists all apparently looking to jump ship. (Guido insists on referring to newspapers as Dead Tree Press, but hey, what do bloggers know?)

Apparently North Lanarkshire council, currently recruiting a new Head of Corporate Communications and Marketing, inadvertently managed to post the entire list of job applicants on its website.

They went with Scotland on Sunday deputy ed Thomas Little in the end, but the five other journalists in the running may not be best pleased that their interest in the job - and their failure to get it - was made public. Their editors won't be either...

UPDATE: We stand corrected. According to Journalism.co.uk, Thomas Little apparently turned down the role, and it ended up going to Sunday Herald deputy editor Stephen Penman instead.