Rats? Bring On the Termites ; Global Warming Is Good News for the Yacht-Loving Skipper at Rentokil

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Cynics might describe it as a choice between one set of rodents and another. Two years ago, nononsense Australian Doug Flynn took control of ailing Rentokil Initial famed as rat-catcher to the Queen. Yet only months earlier, the 58-yearold had been about to become boss of the Fairfax newspaper group Down Under.

The astonishing change of direction for the highpowered media executive, once managing director of Rupert Murdoch's News International, was a direct result of the stubbornness and persistence of Rentokil chairman Brian McGowan.

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Rats? Bring On the Termites ; Global Warming Is Good News for the Yacht-Loving Skipper at Rentokil

'He would ring me up every day for weeks,' says Flynn in his first interview for eight years. 'In the end he ground me down and I agreed to go.' Perhaps a 2.4 million 'golden hello' nudged him in Rentoki...

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