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Apology

April 7, 2008 – 8:00 am

The London Times has a laugh at the expense of Loaded magazine:
Apology of the month comes from Loaded, the little boys’ magazine, which somehow persuaded itself that Heinz once supplied the Nazi regime with a version of alphabet spaghetti consisting of tiny swastikas. This is an urban myth. “We now accept that Heinz has never [...]

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Pseudo-apology

April 2, 2008 – 8:00 am

We may owe an apology to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Last month we dubbed it “Whitehall’s answer to Sir Elton John” after it emerged that it had spent £ 46,000 on pot plants in two years. Now we learn that staff at the Department for Children, Schools and Families spent £ 78,000 [...]

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Not a terrorist

June 4, 2007 – 8:00 am

In two articles published last year (”Cyanide fear triggered terror raid” and “Bomb suspect ’shot without warning’”, June 4) we stated that government officials had said Abul Koyair, the brother of Abdul Kahar (who was shot by police when they raided the family home on June 2) had a number of criminal convictions and that [...]

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The Morien Jones apologies, continued

September 15, 2006 – 8:01 am

We’ve been cataloging the apologies offered to Morien Jones by UK newspapers (read one of the apologies for some background), and now there are a few more to add to the pile. Actually, a lot more. We can’t recall another recent UK story that caused so many apologies. Read the previous apology from the Yorkshire [...]

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