Diary is tickled by the news communities secretary Eric Pickles wishes to transform the foyer of DCLG's Whitehall headquarters at Eland House into a supermarket.

Reported by the Evening Standard's Joe Murphy, housing minister Grant Shapps tweeted a link to the story, commenting, he ‘would be able to nip down for a sarnie & clawback some of the £18m rent (no breakclause) Labour agreed for our Ministry'.