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Blonde, but not a bimbo

Craig Silverman — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:00:45 +0000

IN A report on October 6 about an employment tribunal case involving Wirral West MP Stephen Hesford, it was stated that Mr Hesford had once branded the constituency’s Tory Parliamentary candidate a “blonde bimbo ” and had accused her of using politics in order to get back onto the TV.
This was incorrect and should never have appeared in the report.
Mr Hesford did not make such comments, although a leaflet put out by the local Labour Party, just before the 2005 general election campaign, drew attention to statements said to have been made by the Tory candidate about herself, including that she wanted to combine her work as a TV presenter and politics and that “as a blonde Scouser no one takes me seriously”.
We are happy to make the position clear and to apologise for our error.

Apology

Craig Silverman — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:00:00 +0000

IN yesterday’s Daily Post we published an article headlined ‘Drink drive rap for road safety mum’.
David’s mum Edwina Wares The article was a report of a court case in which Edwina Wares, 51, of Melyd Avenue, Prestatyn (pictured above) had admitted driving with excess alcohol, almost a year since her son David Wares, 22, was killed in a high speed collision.
We would like to point out that the photograph accompanying the report and captioned with Edwina Wares’ name was published in error.
In fact, the photograph was of Stephanie Brown, Road Safety Officer for Denbighshire council (pictured right), who is not connected in any way with Mrs Wares’ drink drive prosecution.
Stephanie Brown, road safety officer We apologise unreservedly for the error, and for any distress caused to Ms Brown.