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By Will Sturgeon, 6 November 2000 09:15

NEWS Having last week agreed a truce of sorts with the online file sharing pioneer, recording giant BMG has seen two of its senior executives, central to the deal, walk out amid concerns over company restructuring. Whether the rather vague 'restructuring' refers directly to the deal with Napster is not made explicit but the paper reports the deal with Napster is central to BMG's move towards a more contemporary business model and reflects the company's changing strategy. The short term handling of the Napster situation is now left in the hands of one man, Andreas Schmidt, after Michael Dornemann and Strauss Zelnick -chairman and president of BMG respectively - announced their departure... British Airways has also suffered a blow in the human resources department as the Independent reports the resignation of its head of e-business Simon Harford. The loss could hardly come at a worse time, with BA having recently announced a £100m internet strategy, which was to be masterminded by Harford. Harford has left to join UK house-hunting site propertyfinder.co.uk as chief financial officer... Another man who may not be with his current employers for too much longer is Andy Catlin, an officer with Surrey Police who set up a website to report on police corruption after becoming increasingly frustrated with the force. The Telegraph reports that the 6,000 people who visited the site before it was taken down following an injunction were given the chance to register their dissatisfaction with the police or make specific complaints. A spokesman for Surrey Police said the reason for an injunction against the site was the use of the Surrey Police force's name in its address, a feature they feared could be misleading. The spokesman said: "We respect the right of an individual to publish material on the internet but this should be published using an address which is not likely to mislead." Undeterred, and taking the latter part of this statement to a literal extreme, Catlin has now launched the in no way misleading www.policecorruption.co.uk . According to the Telegraph Catlin is currently on sick leave - though perhaps that should be "sick leave"...