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Saturday, 4 May 2013

From 'Arctic gales' to 'scorching sunshine'...

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Express, Monday 29 April 2013 : Any hopes of a reprieve for the Bank Holiday were dashed as experts warned wind, rain and bitter tempe...
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EC in UK challenges Mail article on Europol - but paper removes key points from letter

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On 19 April, the Daily Mail reported : The article by Ian Drury began: British police forces will be forced to hand sensitive detail...

The PCC and the MailOnline's publication of 'clearly inappropriate' creepshots

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On 24 September 2012, MailOnline published an article about 'creepshots' - photographs of females taken without their knowledge (of...
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Wednesday, 1 May 2013

Mail on Sunday corrects minaret claim

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A correction from the Mail on Sunday : An earlier version of this article showed a picture of a mosque with dome and minaret and suggest...

Scottish Mail apologises over asylum claims

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The Scottish Daily Mail has published the following correction and apology , after a complaint from the Scottish Refugee Council: In an a...
Thursday, 25 April 2013

The Star's misleading X Factor splash

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The front page of Tuesday's Daily Star splashed with the headline ' Cops raid X Factor star's home ' next to a large photo o...
Friday, 19 April 2013

Star illustrates new story with photo from 2008

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The front page of today's Daily Star includes a dramatic photo of an explosion in Texas: As Scott Bryan points out , the same photo...
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Thursday, 11 April 2013

The Mail, the BBC and Thatcher 'bias'

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As sure as night follows day, so the death of Margaret Thatcher was always going to be followed by the Daily Mail complaining about 'ant...
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Wednesday, 10 April 2013

MailOnline falls for April Fool's Day story

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This article was published by the Croydon Advertiser's website on Sunday 7 April: The Daily Mail has reported that Westfield are to ...

The Sun's prison/hospital confusion

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An apology published by The Sun : In an article ‘Real life Mr Bump has had 34 ops’ (11 January) a picture caption mistakenly said that Mr ...
Wednesday, 3 April 2013

The Express and salt (cont.)

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Thursday's Express serves up another 'miracle cure' front page story: This is not the same 'cure for high blood pressu...
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Monday, 25 March 2013

Mail apologises to Sir Roger Moore for repeating false claims first published in The People

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On 20 January, The People published the following apology to Sir Roger Moore : On 16 September we published an article headed “I’ve had ...
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Wednesday, 20 March 2013

Express and statins (cont.)

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The Express's coverage of the effects of statins ( like their weather reporting ) has always lurched from one sensationalist extreme to ...

Mail corrects claim on company collapse

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Daily Mail, 2 March 2013: all that remains of Cressida's patrimony is a pile of bricks alongside the A444 at Castle Gresley. It once ...
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Tuesday, 19 March 2013

Not smoking is good for you, reveals Express

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The front page of Tuesday's Express reveals ' 7 Easy Steps To A Longer Life ': Jo Willey's story explains what those ...
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