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The Punch: The killing of a man on a Greek Island stag do. We investigate what happened and who did it… Lots of hard work from @nmsonline and @leecsorrell and cameraman Andy Portch along with the Sky News digital and graphics teams.
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Jason Farrell
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Home Editor Sky News, Author: County Lines, How To Lose A Referendum, Films: Primodos The Secret Drug Scandal, Through the Storm, Running With Bulls.
- I’m at a school in East London today where 47% of students have had results downgraded from teachers predictions. Some predicted Cs have been given a U. Some A* predictions reduced to a B.
- Man arrested in St James’s Park for bringing megaphone. “It could scare the horses” police officer tells me.
- MGM Lawyer “Do you recollect seeing any of those articles at the time of publication” Harry: “When I was going through them with my legal team it certainly jogged memories.” Lawyer asks how they could cause distress if he didn’t read them at the time.
- Harry being quizzed now over an article he complained about which focused on his 18th birthday party. Green says essentially Harry gave an interview to PA which was quoted in newspapers including the Mirror. “The private information has been revealed by you in an interview.”
- Article in Mirror about Harry having lunch with friends. “People are invited to call in (to the paper) if they spotted someone famous,” says Green. Adds that Harry would have walked down busy streets to get there. “I don’t walk down the street,” says Harry.
- Larry is back this morning to make another Government statement...
- Andrew Green KC, representing MGN, says an article Harry’s team says an article his team claims was obtained unlawfully about his mother visiting him at school on his birthday was actually announced by the palace on PA the day before.
- Interesting callers to @mrjamesob One Tory voter for the first time in the last election, angry at the PM - but more so at the lack of challenge from the Conservative backbench. Another calling them “nodding donkeys.” Backbenchers must feel the heat of this turning on them.
- Andrew Green KC, representing MGN, is essentially arguing that Harry was generally upset by press intrusion - but he can’t point to particular articles that caused distress because many of them he probably didn’t read at the time.
- “There was no need for the Daily Mirror to use unlawful means because the information had already been published in the Daily Mail and the Sunday mirror” says Green “Isn’t it a little unfair to claim it was obtained by phone hacking?”
- “Hooray Harry Dumped” Harry describes the headline as “extremely hurtful.” Green asks if Harry thinks the “hooray” is a celebration? Harry believes it might be. Green says the “hooray” is in respect of his “hooray lifestyle” “It’s not celebrating the demise of your relationship”
- A piece of cardboard placed over the plinth now dedicates what is left of the Colston monument to “the slaves that were taken from their homes.”
