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Rupert Murdoch spills the beans about culture of cover-ups at tabloid
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch on the second day of the Leveson inquiry into the phone hacking scandal at the Sunday edition of the Sun admitted that the news firm had a few cover-ups. There was one very cunning lawyer, Murdoch disclosed, adding that “one or two people” at the News of the World concealed the inside stories from the senior people there. Murdoch, however, refused to reveal names of…
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Fire fighters save 15 lives in Dundee fire mishap
The Tayside Fire and Rescue fire-fighters successfully rescued 15 people from a five-storey building in Dundee while subsiding a fire that broke out on Wednesday. The flames were brought under control by Thursday morning. Among those rescued, two of them were treated for smoke inhalation. Major casualties were averted with timely intervention by the fire-fighters, one of whom received minor injuries at the end of the ordeal. Residents of the…
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