Long-running morning show GMTV bowed out today with presenter Andrew Castle thanking the loyal viewers who watched it in its 17-year run.

The Prime Minister's media adviser Andy Coulson faces being summoned to court to give evidence over further allegations of phone-hacking by reporters from the News of the World during the time he was editing the newspaper.

But for Saatchi & Saatchi, the London advertising agency founded 40 years ago next week, you mightn't be reading this page. Indeed, there just mightn't have been an Independent at all ? something in the time-space continuum could've gone slip-sliding away. That's the way The Independent's original 1980s' founding Gang of Three ? Andreas Whittam Smith, Matthew Symonds and Stephen Glover ? tell it, anyway.