Enter the scrum

A surprise Opec headline can throw the market into a tailspin, but gathering the news can be even more frenetic. In March, one scrum even resulted in broken bones. Stella Farrington writes from Iran

It may not be war reporting, but seeing journalists limping away from some of the famed “scrums” that occur every time an oil minister walks through a hotel lobby during a meeting of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, suggests a war of sorts.

In the battle to be first with a headline, even if only by a matter of seconds, journalists prowl hotels where ministers stay and