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I am waiting for the names of the bent coppers to come out too. Twenty to thirty thousand was average payout it seems, and that envelopes were handed over in fast food establishment. Reporters, by nature, will do what they can to find a story - not that any of this debacle is acceptable - but those police officers are supposed to uphold the law are they not, and to enforce it. Why werent they busy nicking each other. I am sure, like staff at the paper, some knew more about what was happening than others, but almost all must have had an inkling.
I made their front page in my youth. Reading festival - 'hippy drug fiends busted at reading festival' - that translated to a cid woman stopped me walking back to site, asked where I lived, chatted a bit as we were from the same area.... small world and all that. I was also on news at ten - and in a couple of other papers/mags. The press never left the hotel - the photographers took photos from the windows of the bar I believe - hardly journalism as we thunked it.
Pity it didnt retire with its good name intact as what it originaly was - a news paper for the ordinary man. Pity when ownership changed hands, that the name never got changed, and the name NOTW now means something far different than it was born as.
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