City Diary: Would-be Apprentices hide their lights under the BS Let's hope Mordaunt, otherwise known as "business perfection personified," reveals more on prime-time TV. Still on the new crop of Apprentices, Neil Clough, an employee at the five-a-side football operator Goals Soccer Centres, has a high-profile boss. Clough's non-exec chairman is Sir Rodney Walker, who hit the headlines in March when he emerged as the buyer of a luxury seaside flat once owned by the late serial sex offender Jimmy Savile. The former Leicester City FC chairman is made of sterner stuff than most. As Sir Rodney told the Leicester Mercury on Savile's former apartment in Scarborough, which is to undergo "major alterations": "It could have belonged to anybody." Bolland well-suited to role There will be no Gerald Ratner moments from M&S chief Marc Bolland. Contrary to mischievous rumours from rivals, Bolland wears an M&S suit to work every day. "I have never seen him in anything else," says a loyal aide, who reports that the "sartorial" collection, the "sustainable" range, and the Savile Row Inspired collection are all favourites. Then again, the Inspired range has also been spotted on the retailer's former chairman Lord Myners - the very same Lord Myners who last November called M&S's performance "disappointing." Wanted for Waddesdon Shareholders in Bumi Resources, take note. There is at least one asset the Rothschild dynasty has managed to "enhance and nurture." That's the family's 6,000 acre Waddesdon estate, bought by the Rothschild family in 1874, which is so well-tended it was shortlisted for a Silver Lapwing award in 2010. The Buckinghamshire manor was given to the National Trust in 1957, but remains "under the stewardship" of Lord Rothschild, the father of Bumi founder Nat, who is looking for a new CEO to run Waddesdon as a "commercially savvy operation." Candidates seasoned in "an organisation of profile and complexity" only, say the Waddesdon board. Here's a clue as to perhaps why there aren't as many women on boards as the 30% Club would like. Jasmine Staiblin, appointed as a non-executive director at Rolls-Royce last May, couldn't attend the company's recent AGM because she has just had a baby. The aircraft engine-maker's outgoing chairman, Sir Simon Robertson, even apologised for the no-show on her behalf. But that wasn't good enough for one Rolls shareholder, who demanded visual proof of the infant's existence. "Regarding the director who has just had a new baby, I would like to see the baby here," the investor declared. BBC boss tops the Telegraph leaderboard Tim Davie may have missed out to Lord Tony Hall for the BBC director-general role. But outside the corporation, he is fully up to speed. Diary is told the newly installed chief of the BBC's commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, can complete a marathon in a rapid three hours and ten minutes. That's joint first on the Daily Telegraph's ongoing leaderboard of business leaders" marathon achievements, with hotelier Sir Rocco Forte. Any challengers to our fastest cat in the corporate jungle crown, don't be backwards in coming forward...