Granada boss may lose job in coup

GRANADA boss Charles Allen could yet become a victim of last week’s shareholder coup which forced Carlton boss Michael Green to relinquish ambitions of running a single ITV, it was reported yesterday.

Anthony Bolton, the City fund manager credited with leading the investor rebellion over plans for Mr Green to run the new group, is reported to want a new chairman to be allowed to have a “clean brush”.

Such an arrangement could call into question Mr Allen’s future at the new ITV plc to be created out of the merger of Granada and Carlton.