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A Cozzer Snout

On a comically miserable February morning, I made my way to Inner London Crown Court, a few minutes’ walk from the sodden chaos of Elephant and Castle station. Having jostled through security…

He’d died during my early childhood, though there have been no lack of compensatory stories which testified to his integrity and apparently unusually firm moral backbone (he’d resigned from the Mirror in the mid-1960s after refusing to doorstep the family of a recently murdered child). has it all, from the early 18th-century pioneers (Daniel Defoe is sometimes credited as the first writer to have brought us the ‘celebrity criminal’ via his portrayal of the thief and master escape artist Jack Shepard in 1724) to the great excesses of mid-20th century Fleet Street my grandfather would have known, and beyond, to the rather more circumscribed present. And because it so rarely meets the public’s needs, it’s almost never newsworthy.’ They alight on several key issues, such as a pernicious over-reliance on police sources and a lack of understanding, or care, about the long-term consequences of poor, or simply malicious, reporting.

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