Checkpoint Choice for 15 April 2010

Two-hundred jobs are to go at Telecom, after it slashed its earnings forecast for the next three years by tens of millions of dollars. Two former cabinet ministers along with two other directors of the failed company Lombard Finance and Investments are facing criminal charges for misleading investors and Convoys carrying food, tents and rescuers are rumbling into China's Qinghai province, following yesterday's 6.9 magnitude earthquake.