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prostitutes and 'innocent women' has been tailor made for the gutter.
It is no surprise therefore to find that the cheque books of Fleet Street have been waving through the letter boxes of Sutcliffe's relatives.
The subsequent row between the Daily Mail and Buckingham Palace has caused considerable pain inside the editorial offices.
Best defenders
The Daily Mail and the rest of the millionaire owned press are the best defenders of the system on which the monarcy rests. But their efforts are not always palace grounds, came across a security guard beating up an intruder.
The monarchy is not supposed actually to come into contact with the nastier Janis the machine that DES -JESTNE "Don't believe lies and rumours. Do listen to your local clergymen, councillors and other community leaders. We will be making it our business to ensure that the news media get the facts, so listen to them too.
That was the most ironic part of a lengthy statement Humphrey Atkins, and the nearest he has yet come to an open admission that he will control what appears on television and in the press.
It came in the days leading up to the death in Lone Kesh of Bobby Sands, the elected MP the government could not afford to let live Atkins' statement was a long and fantastic account in which he alleged that the Provisional IRA were set to burn down • Catholic homes and blame it on Protestant gangs. This was unhesitatingly accepted as fact by the press.
Atkins said:
"In one area of Belfast the Provisional IRA are contemplating evacuating residents to other parts of the city, burning the emptied houses and by throwing the blame onto others, further fuelling sectarian conflict. Already they have actually earmarked houses for these intended evacuees and the owners have been ordered to cooperate."
No evidence at all was given for this claim, or for an alleged plan to send children out to fight the police (subsequent events showed that the youth needed no prompting).
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appreciated. It is rather as if the Queen, strolling in the