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Jul 10th 2011, 12:28 pm

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I refer you to the clip from Newnight in my previous post. Paul McMullen is the epitome of scum and Colin Myler has a bloody cheek to even suggest such a thing.

Was it NotW that tried to sting Lol Dallaglio a few years back?

Jul 10th 2011, 12:50 pm

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Was it NotW that tried to sting Lol Dallaglio a few years back?

I believe so. He was front cover for drug use/dealing?

Jul 10th 2011, 1:21 pm

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I believe so. He was front cover for drug use/dealing?

Not exactly - he got conned into admitting he'd dabbled in a few substances (around the time he lost his sister in the Marchioness disaster on the Thames) and said that rugby had saved him from a life of drugs, etc.

The NotW turned that into, in effect, an 'I'm an addict' story........

Jul 10th 2011, 2:58 pm

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That doesn't surprise me. I have never bought NotW so I don't know the details. Considering the drug and alcohol use of most hacks, let alone their shagging around, they are such hypocrites/

Jul 10th 2011, 3:16 pm

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That doesn't surprise me. I have never bought NotW so I don't know the details. Considering the drug and alcohol use of most hacks, let alone their shagging around, they are such hypocrites/

It seems this is not just a recent thing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14077634

Jul 10th 2011, 5:44 pm

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That doesn't surprise me. I have never bought NotW so I don't know the details. Considering the drug and alcohol use of most hacks, let alone their shagging around, they are such hypocrites/

Almost as much hypocrisy as that now being shown by the expense-fiddling MPs now queueing up to condemn them...............

Jul 10th 2011, 5:50 pm

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Almost as much hypocrisy as that now being shown by the expense-fiddling MPs now queueing up to condemn them...............

Ah, but you seem to be overlooking the golden rule of "Do as I say, not as I do".

Jul 11th 2011, 5:47 am

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Re: News of The World & phone hacking

Despite Rebekah Brooke having ordered a thorough search of the final edition to prevent digs at management from staff, seems the cross word was overlooked according to this piece in the Guardian.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011...orld-crossword

Jul 11th 2011, 7:18 am

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Blast from the past, but just mindblowingly messed up...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...ret-tapes.html

Jul 11th 2011, 7:23 am

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The loaded crossword reminds me of a clue that a journalist who was fired slipped into a crossword many years ago. The clue was "Wrinkled old retainer."

(The answer was "Scrotum.")

Jul 12th 2011, 7:19 am

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Re: News of The World & phone hacking

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/b...-201107084049/

Jul 12th 2011, 7:41 am

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I was with one of his team mates on a stag weekend when the story broke, that was ten years after the Marchioness tragedy. He was far from surprised.
I've also seen first hand some serious substance abuse by top level players, Matt Stevens was just one of the unlucky ones.

Jul 12th 2011, 11:48 am

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http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/b...-201107084049/

http://vimeo.com/26203800

Jul 12th 2011, 6:04 pm

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Re: News of The World & phone hacking

http://www.theatlantic.com/internati...istory/241803/

'Britain's Guardian newspaper, founded in 1821 as the Manchester Guardian, is making journalism history. The newspaper, owned and subsidized by the Scott Trust, has been instrumental this past year in two major episodes that are defining the ethics and practice of contemporary journalism'