So congratulations to Abellio for winning the Greater Anglia franchise.
Meanwhile Eye understands that there is growing concern within the Department about how the news reached the market.
Sid Spiv, Director of Leaks at the DfT, said "My team has worked extremely hard to ensure that the winner of this franchise was well known before we had to go through all that boring, old, official announcement stuff. Even the Guardian had it two weeks ago for God's sake. Therefore, I find it completely unacceptable that scarce government resources were wasted on making a formal announcement this morning. Mark my words, heads will not roll for this."
A clearly angry Mr Spiv ended by saying "Did I mention that Virgin will get their franchise extension?"
