Roger Parry, chair­man of UK news group John­ston Press, on the epi­phany that made him give up TV journ­al­ism for a career in business:

“I had been a broad­cast journ­al­ist for seven years and only decided to leave the BBC when I was assigned to cover the Not­ting Hill Car­ni­val for the third year run­ning,” he says.

“I went with the same cam­era crew and sat on the roof of the same pub as before. We were sent there wait­ing for trouble but we spent the whole after­noon drink­ing beer and noth­ing happened. I thought to myself, ‘I can’t do this again… I’ll go nuts’.”