Rumours have reached us from the general direction of the UK MNT Network that the rumour doing the rounds that the director had been fired is just that, a rumour (or perhaps wishful thinking on the part of the rumourmongers).
Given that the UK (population 60m) has now spent about as much government cash on nanotech as, er, Austria (pop. 8m) we look forward to phase two of the UK’s nanotech masterplan.