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Apology

December 3, 2007 – 8:00 am

ON March 12, 2006 we published an apology retracting our publication of false claims by Sally Anderson that amongst other things she had had sex with David Blunkett and that when he was told she was pregnant he abandoned her.
We also undertook not to repeat those untrue allegations.
In contradiction of this in an article published [...]

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Giving truth to an allegation

December 3, 2007 – 8:00 am

A Nov. 15 Sports column commented on reports of allegations that New York Rangers’ forward Sean Avery goaded Toronto Maple Leaf Jason Blake about his battle with leukemia, leading to a pre-game scuffle between Avery and Toronto’s Darcy Tucker. There is no evidence that Avery made such remarks, and in fact, as was reported in [...]

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No fawning took place

November 12, 2007 – 8:00 am

Last Sunday’s diary wrongly reported that Matthew D’Ancona, the editor of The Spectator, had hosted a lunch for John Standing at which he had fawned over one of Mr Standing’s guests, the actress Billie Piper. Mr D’Ancona has pointed out that Billie Piper [...]

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But was he hammered?

October 29, 2007 – 7:00 am

In ‘The mayhem behind the microphone’ (Review, last week), we said historian Norman Stone was ‘too hammered’ to appear on an edition of Radio 4’s Today programme. While this was reported in good faith, we now accept that it was untrue: the BBC was unable to get him to a studio in time to broadcast. [...]

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