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Crystal balls
Broadcast today reports that Craig Doyle is being lined up to replace Jonny Vaughan on Capital radio’s breakfast show. I hope they have a more convincing source than this post from October…
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Diana again
This morning James Naughtie interviewed Mohammed al-Fayed on the Today programme – it’s here. It wasn’t live. I’m guessing that after the Jeremy Vine experience, the BBC has decided that Mr al-Fayed is a prime candidate for pre-recording. Al-Fayed’s case runs on the confusion over Henri Paul’s blood sample, which even if it were true,…
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Diana
Mohammed al-Fayed has been on NBC’s Today Show denouncing the Stevens’ inquiry into the Paris crash that killed his son, Princess Diana, and driver Henri Paul. Stevens, says al-Fayed, was blackmailed by the security services to produce a whitewash. Al-Fayed has lost a son, and as a human being he deserves our sympathy. But the…
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Murder
ITV News bested the BBC tonight. Crime is their thing and they set about it with grim determination. Yes, the word grim … you will have heard it repeated a few times this evening. ITN are there when the bodies are found, they have the Paula Clennell interview. On the scene Mark Austin holds things…