Madeleine McCann: Correcting A Correction
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann - a few words on apologies:
A WORD on newspaper apologies in the University of Virginia’s Cavalier Daily – oh, the irony – featuring Our Maddie as the ultimate newspaper apology.
Christopher Hitchens has said that the purpose of putting corrections in a newspaper is not really to correct what the paper got wrong. It’s to point out that everything else in the paper was right.
Tim Thornton goes on to talk of corrections and clarifications. And then introduces Craig Silverman, who writes the excellent book Regret the Error.
Posted: 30th, September 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann: Watching Kate McCann And Looking For Damages
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news: Three summers on from when Madeleine McCann vanished, the media is still watching the parents, zooming in on Kate McCann. The McCanns are in Portugal in search of Madeleine…and damages.
Daily Star (front page): “MADDIE: OUT NEW HOPE”
The harrowing trip was “extremely emotional” for Kate McGann and her first visit to Portugal since Maddie disappeared in May 2007…
The couple’s spokesman Clarence Mitchell added: “It has been a difficult and daunting ordeal for both of them, but particularly Kate. It’s her first trip back and it’s been very traumatic for her. In the end she just decided: ‘I’ll do it for Madeleine.’
“It’s an extremely emotional time but she feels it was necessary to help find her daughter.”
Daily Mirror (front page): “Every day I cry for Maddy”
At an emotional press conference in Lisbon she admitted: “I cry for her every day.”
Posted: 24th, September 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann Comments (10) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann And Natasha Richardson For Sale
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Sunday People: “FLOWERS FOR KATE”
Brave Kate McCann faces new heartache this morning as she wakes up to her second Mother’s Day without daughter Madeleine.
Sad news. But why are we watching the parents when the child is missing? Is there pleasure in another’s pain?
Editors Weblog: “The Sun’s purchase of Google keywords ‘Natasha Richardson’: is this ethical?”
Effic..?
CounterValue reported that UK newspaper The Sun had purchased the keywords “Natasha Richardson” on Google meaning that anybody searching for name of the actress (whose recent tragic death has been widely reported) would see the link to the Sun’s story appear alongside their search results. A Google search carried out today, however, did not show any sponsored links, meaning that perhaps the Sun has thought the better of its arguably morally-questionable purchase. Or perhaps after the first day it was not financially viable to keep the promotion going.
Via Countervalue.
The Guardian came under considerable criticism last August when, apparently accidentally, it purchased the Google keywords “Madeleine McCann,” giving any searchers the link to its coverage of the child’s disappearance. The Guardian promptly relinquished the rights, and said it would review its list of keywords. Purchasing Google keywords in order to promote a product is common practice, but is it ethical for newspapers?
What difference to putting Natasha Richardson on a front page; of writing her name on the Evening Standard’s Read-all-about-it-boards; of advertising your news..?
Daily Mail: “As a report condemns government databases… Big Brother is wasting your billions”
While worried homeowners pored over Google’s new Street View map yesterday to see whether it contained intrusive images of their homes, a far more worrying story emerged about the burgeoning use of surveillance powers.
The Daily Mail is giving each reader a free pair of X-Ray specs?
A report by Ross Anderson, professor of security engineering at Cambridge University and one of the country’s foremost experts on the use of information technology, paints a picture of a Government obsessed with personal datacollection which is costing taxpayers billions, infringing our privacy and putting us all at risk of crime and identity theft.
No fewer than 11 of the databases developed by the Government, concludes Professor Anderson, are ‘almost certainly’ illegal.
Almost certainly, eh?
In future, it will take only an NHS worker to leave a laptop on a train and the medical history, including drug-use and sexual orientation, of millions of Britons will be available to everyone.
And now you’re scared, it’s time for Tabloid Bingo!, with your caller Ross Clark:
It won’t, of course. Victoria Climbie and Baby P died not through lack of a computer system but because doctors and social workers who came across them failed to spot obvious signs of harm.
And:
In practice, DNA collected from a crime scene is rarely perfect: remember how Madeleine McCann’s parents were arrested by Portuguese police and invited to confess to manslaughter after DNA samples taken from the boot of their hire car were ‘matched’ with Madeleine’s? It later became quite clear that it was a partial match of no significance whatsoever.
Bingo!
The Scottish edition of the Sunday Express has apologised for the “terrible offence” it caused by running a front page story alleging survivors of the Dunblane massacre had shamed the memory of dead friends by boasting about drunken nights out on social networking websites. Yesterday’s strongly-worded apology, headlined “Dunblane: We’re Sorry”, ran on page five of the Sunday Express’s Scottish edition, with the paper admitting its original story of a fortnight ago was “undeniably inappropriate”. The Express Newspapers’ title said it had also spoken to the families involved to apologise.
The Express:
This is the latest in several high-profile apologies by the paper’s publisher. Last year, Express Newspapers apologised and paid £550,000 in damages after the parents of the missing schoolgirl Madeleine McCann took legal action against its four national titles for a series of untrue stories published about them.
Anyone keeping score of how many time the Guardian has now mentioned the Express being fined over the McCann story? Is the Guardian gloating, or just ticking the key words…
Madeleine McCann is missing.
Posted: 24th, March 2009 | In: Media Comments (15) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Missing Madeleine McCann On BBC Daytime TV Show
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Daily Record: “Quirke Start To A Mid-Life Crisis”
THE BBC’s new entertainment show Missing is on daytime telly. Quirk plays “DS Mary Jane Croft, a charismatic detective who runs an under-resourced department. The drama, set in a busy Missing Persons Unit, sees staff race against time to save people who are at risk.”
“But I’m pleased I’ve filmed the series. It’s entertainment - I wouldn’t claim it to be anything else - but you never know, do you? Somebody who has had a fall-out with their family and has gone missing may see the show, feel a pang of conscience and get in touch with relatives who are worried sick about what has happened to them.”
Pauline is relieved to report nobody has ever gone missing from her own family - husband Steve Sheen and children Emily, 24, and Charlie, 14.
Phew!
She says: “I can, truly, think of nothing worse than missing a child and for that uncertainty to continue - as it has for the parents of Madeleine McCann - must be unbearable.
Fact and fiction - can you spot the difference?
The Herald: “Body discovered in loch believed to be missing Uist cadet”
The mysterious disappearance had haunted the island community since Christmas, but it now looks as if the long search for a 21-year-old merchant navy cadet who went missing almost three months ago is at an end.
The people of South Uist have been looking for Simon MacMillan since he vanished in the early hours of Boxing Day in the township of Linique in the Iochdar area of the island…
A group of locals discovered a body at around 10.30am yesterday in Loch Bee, just south of the road between Linique and Mr MacMillan’s home in Ardmore.
And context?
Northern Constabulary brought in Mark Harrison, the national search adviser to the National Policing Improvement Agency, who was also involved in the search for Madeleine McCann.
Is Our Maddy on your CV?
However, after police drew a blank, an expert who had reviewed the hunt for Madeleine McCann was called in to help develop new leads.
Local police also recruited Mark Harrison, the national search adviser to the National Policing Improvement Agency, who had previously worked with West Midlands police following the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
The Guardian: “PCC targets Sunday Express over Dunblane allegations”
The Press Complaints Commission has launched an investigation after the Scottish edition of the Sunday Express ran a front page story alleging survivors of the Dunblane massacre “shamed” the memory of their dead friends by boasting about drunken nights out on social networking websites.
The article, titled “Anniversary shame of Dunblane: internet boasts of sex, drink and violence as youngsters hit 18″ appeared on March 8. It claimed that a number of the those who witnessed the massacre first-hand had “posted shocking blogs and photographs of themselves on the internet, 13 years after being sheltered from public view in the aftermath of the atrocity”.
Sixteen children and their teacher were murdered when gunman Thomas Hamilton burst into the gym at Dunblane Primary School and opened fire on March 13 1996. Hamilton then turned the gun on himself.
Children of Dunblane Horror Grow Up Normally – read all about it!
And:
The editor of the Daily Express, Peter Hill, left the board of the PCC last year following front page and high court apologies from Express Newspapers titles the Daily Express, Daily Star, Sunday Express and Daily Star Sunday over a string of false stories about the disappearance of four-year-old Madeline McCann, which resulted in payments of £550,000 in damages to the McCann family.
Never let her lie…
Posted: 16th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (27) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann: Robert Murat, MPs And Gerry McCann’s Heated Debate
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann, featuring special guest star Robert Murat
Madeleine McCann is missing, still missing. She is now missing from the papers. The story is not of a missing child. The story is of the media, how the single thread story became a maelstrom of speculation and clai, and now introspection.
Last night Robert Murat – a media victim - addressed an audience of students at Cambridge University’s Union Society in favour of a motion that “the tabloid press does more harm than good“.
Posted: 6th, March 2009 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (35) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann: Clarence Mitchell For Hire, PR And Nuts For Kate McCann’s Swimsuit
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Clarence Mitchell, the McCanns’ PR , is talking with the Indepedent. Now the McCanns are free - no longer suspects in their daughter’s disappearance - why is Clarnce Mitchell needed?
The Independent: “Clarence Mitchell: ‘I am a decent human being. If I can help them, I will’ - The ex-BBC journalist built a career on professional detachment. Then, he went to work for the McCanns.”
“There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever, nothing, to suggest that Madeleine has been harmed, let alone killed,” insists Clarence Mitchell, the former television reporter who speaks for the family of the most famous missing girl in the world. Her face is instantly recognisable. There is no longer any need to use her surname, McCann. And yet, nearly two years since she vanished from the Algarve, there is still no trace.
Posted: 1st, March 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (62) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
2008 Media Year: Russell Brand, Robert Peston, Strictly Come Dancing And Jonathan Ross’ Dogger Bank
IT’S been a great year for media stories about the media, starring Russell Brand, Jonathan Ross, Robert Peston, the BBC, Strictly Come Dancing and fines. The media loves media stories about the media, and so do audiences.
In 2009, the BBC will strive to bring you even more stories about the media, such as how BBC Breakfast presenters Bill Strictly and Sian In Need are never far away from a pair of spoons, and how BBC5 is to be the Beeb’s new TV channel for stories just about the media.
But what about 2008? Phew! It was quite some year.
Posted: 29th, December 2008 | In: Key Posts, Media Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann: She Speaks To Spaniard And BBC Scores Points
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THE SUN: “Fury at Maddie ‘ghost chat’”
No, not a ghost chat show – it’s not a publicity stunt. It;s not even a follow up to the Daily Star’s front page screamer: “MADDIE GHOST VISITS MUM”. It’s:
A SICK comedy writer has sparked outrage by publishing a spoof interview with Madeleine McCann’s “ghost”. Jose Perez, 28, who writes for Spanish TV, reports in his online blog that Maddie — who vanished in May 2007 aged three — visited his house.
Posted: 29th, December 2008 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (73) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann: Reporting Going Cheap
THE GUARDIAN continues to beat the Star and Express with a big Madeleine McCann-shaped stick:
The price cut follows a string of high profile problems for Express Newspapers, owner of the Daily Star, which was forced last month to apologise and pay £375,000 in libel damages to the so-called ‘tapas seven’, the group Kate and Gerry McCann dined with on the night their daughter Madeleine disappeared, after the publisher ran a series of defamatory stories about the group.
Get that? The Star and Express are now cheaper because of the McCanns? Will the Sun and Mail be cheaper? What about subscriptions to Sky TV?
Posted: 6th, November 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (175) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The Madeleine McCann Location Device And Finding Brand And Ross
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HALIFAX EVENING COURIER: “Child-tracking device gives parents holiday peace of mind”
(Image: Beau Bo D’Or Website)
AN enterprising duo are to rent out child tracking devices and satellite navigation systems to holidaymakers at an airport. Friends David Molloy and Tony Waite, both born and raised in Halifax, have set up Stressless Journeys Ltd.
Stress free… Where do we sign for our bottle of Calpol/gin/valium?
Posted: 31st, October 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (81) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann: An Apology For Journalism, Desmond’s Reputation And Greenslade Scores
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DAILY STAR: “’THE TAPAS SEVEN‘” - AN APOLOGY
The Sangria Seven, surely. Or the Tapas 9 (what happened to them?). But what of this latest apology? Ahem..:
In articles published in September and November last year we suggested that the holiday companions of Kate and Gerry McCann might have covered up the true facts concerning Madeleine McCann’s disappearance and/or misled the authorities investigating her disappearance.
Yes…
Posted: 16th, October 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Madeleine McCann, Media, Tabloids Comments (359) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann: The Truth Of The Lie, The Missing Pages And Blonde Lawyers
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A girl has disappeared. We spent over a year watching the parents via the press. The McCanns have been formally cleared of involvement in Madeleine’s disappearance. But we are still watching them…
IRISH INDEPENDENT: “Maddy’s parents turn to their lawyers as book hits shelves”
Posted: 24th, July 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Madeleine McCann, Tabloids Comments (729) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann: Clarence Mitchell For Hire, Richard Desmond And The Guardian Repeats
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DAILY TELEGRAPH: “McCann’s spokesman Clarence Mitchell ponders PR move
As Kate and Gerry McCann return from their first family holiday since their daughter Madeleine disappeared 14 months ago, their spokesman Clarence Mitchell is in talks to join a PR agency where he plans to help other parents who have lost children to deal with the media.
Such is the news of the McCann case that the internet traffic-hungry Telegraph is looking at Clarence Mitchell’s career options. An interviwer might ask him what good has come of all the PR and media handling, and point out that not every missing child is the the blonde, photgenic progency of middle-class doctors and thus not deemed to be as newsworthy.
Says Mitchell, the McCanns’ spokesman:
“I’m happy to help anyone in the eye of a media storm, but I need to put myself on a firm financial footing. I should stress, however, that there’s absolutely no question of me abandoning Kate and Gerry McCann.”
Working for the McCanns is a job, and it pays. But when will it end?
THE GUARDIAN: “Fakery fallout hits TV sector”
Deception rows caused several top television figures to slide down the top 100. It’s the MediaGuardian 100, an arbitrary league table of TV shows and staff.
Posted: 14th, July 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Madeleine McCann Comments (620) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann: Daily Express Editor Stands Down And a Joke
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THE GUARDIAN: “PEOPLE”
Meanwhile, a current editor, Peter Hill of the Daily Express, stood down yesterday from the Press Complaints Commission, not entirely coincidentally following the company’s recent £550,000 payout to the family of Madeleine McCann for publishing false stories about them.
The donation, right?
The PCC’s chairman, Christopher Meyer, had said Hill’s position was under review following the Express’s apology
THE IRISH TIMES: “Comedy controversies: all in the worst possible taste - Some of the gags that attracted most opprobrium.”
Sean Hughes on Madeleine McCann
At a show last year, Irish comic Sean Hughes noted how the parents of missing child Madeleine McCann had visited the Pope in the Vatican. “I know the Pope was in the Hitler Youth, but I don’t think he has anything to do with Madeleine’s disappearance,” he said.
A joke should be funny. Try this one, or this one. Or this one…
Posted: 16th, May 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (460) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCanns: Police Will Solve Case, Or Not, Maybe
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DAILY MIRROR: “’We’ll get result on Madeleine McCann’, say Portuguese police”
Faro police chief Guilhermino Encarnacao promised the investigation would “bring results, whoever they hurt”… Dr Encarnacao said: “Everything’s going well. The inquiries carried out in the UK are progressing in the best way possible.”
Sow here is Madeleine McCann? Don’t keep us waiting…
Says the president of Portugal’s Bar Association, Antonio Marinho e Pinto: “They have reached a dead end and don’t know how to admit it.”
NEWS & STAR: “Leak was proof of McCanns’ innocence”
It has now emerged that Maddie sobbed for her mother the night before she vanished. “Mummy, why didn’t you come when we were crying last night,’’ said the little girl to her mother the night before she vanished.
It is Kate herself who told the police what her daughter had said. I doubt that a guilty mother would have dreamed of being so honest in her statement to the police.
The police leak may have been meant to damn the McCanns but Kate McCann’s admission was that of an innocent.
Case closed.
THE GUARDIAN: “Drugs firm attacks Sunday Express splash”
Posted: 17th, April 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (867) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann: The Sangria 7 And Introducing The McCanns’ Lawyers
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GLASGOW DAILY RECORD: “POLICE FLYING IN TO QUIZ TAPAS 7”
The Sangria 7. It’s the Tapas 9.
Detective Superintendent Stuart Prior, who heads the British arm of the probe, is likely to lead the interviews. Police chief Paulo Rebelo, the man in charge of the investigation, is also likely to make the high-profile trip to Britain.
Detectives want to clear up any “inconsistencies” in the group’s stories about what happened the night Madeleine went missing.
Says McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell:
Posted: 1st, April 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (877) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann: Fiona MacKeown Compares And More Questions
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DAILY MAIL: “The very sinister cover-up behind Scarlett’s murder in Goa”
The paper looks to Fiona MacKeown, mother to murdered teenager Scarlett Keeling.
“I have nine children which makes you strong and there has been a lot to do. When I have nothing to do but think - it’s very hard. She really fought for her life and I think about that all the time.”
How does she feel about all the criticism of her for leaving Scarlett?
“I’m not surprised, really. Look at what’s been said about Madeleine McCann’s mother, and she is the picture of elegance.”
Says Fiona Mackeown, the media’s Charlotte Rampling.
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Madeleine McCann police in last ditch visit”
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Madeleine McCann: Porn, Liverpool For McCanns And Libel
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THE INDEPENDENT: “Saga of the McCanns is not yet over”
Says Richard Ingrams:
No one can feel too sorry at the thought of Express owner Richmond Desmond, who has made a huge fortune out of pornography, having to shell out a fraction of his profits to the needy McCanns.
No, not climate porn, the Independent’s apocalyptic visions of climate change, but real flesh and hair porn - the porn that has given Richard Demsond “huge profits”; which must mean many not only enjoy porn and are happy to pay for it. Would “no one” feel sorry for Mr Desmond if his fine curtailed his porn output?
The Story of the McCanns and Express Newspaper was broken by Anorak
All the same, the story is puzzling. The Express was undoubtedly guilty of libel. But the suggestion that the McCanns might have been in one way or another responsible for their daughter’s death did not originate with the newspaper. It was the Portuguese police who long ago branded the McCanns as suspects. And officially they remain so. It has never been explained why they were so convinced of the McCanns’ guilt when all the facts seem to point the other way.
Facts? There is only one fact: Madeleine McCann is missing.
Posted: 22nd, March 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Madeleine McCann, Tabloids Comments (453) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The McCann-Express Legal Position
THIS is a neat round up on the McCann-Express legal position in today’s’ Guardian.
The Guardian has a lot of recent experience with libel cases having lost the famous Aitken case…then, a few years later, having the moral justification of seeing Jonathan Aitken, a former Conservative Minister, branded a liar and jailed for perjury.
Strangely, one of the newspapers involved this week, The Star, has also had a fairly topical high profile libel and later rebuff case. Jeffrey Archer won a libel case against it. He was awarded, again curiously, £500,000 and was later proved to have lied in court and was jailed for perjury.
The innocent Doctors McCann have not appeared in court and have not committed perjury.
Today’s article is highly recommended reading.
I hate to be seen to be a smart alex but we did tell you so, first and before anyone else thought of it…Team McCann’s lawyers may have seen it coming around the same time.
Explainer: The legal position
Posted: 20th, March 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Twitterings Comments (58) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine Mcann: Express Newspapers Win, Robert Murat’s Tabloid Trial And Money
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What irony in the McCanns winning £550,000 damages from the tabloid press, to whom they turned to keep their missing daughter Madeleine in the public eye. Thanks to the tabloids, Madeleine is big news once more. And with the money - notably the Star’s - get this - donation going to the Find Madeleine Fund, Express Newspapers have helped the search for the missing girl.
Meanwhile, the News of the World’s reward remains unclaimed. So is this a victory for Express Newspapers? Is the Express the tabloid that cares most?
FINANCIAL TIMES: “McCann libel payout cues media debate”
Lawyers and newspaper executives agreed on Wednesday that a £550,000 ($1.1m) payout by Express Newspapers to the parents of missing Madeleine McCann would temper tabloid behaviour. But not for long.
“WHY was Shannon laughing,” Sunday Express
Broadcaster Andrew Neil, former editor of The Sunday Times, said: “The Express got its come-uppance and I believe the editor should resign. But it is only the worst example…Whether that lesson will be heeded for long, I’m not so sure.”
Hunting Madeleine McCann And Robert Murat
A former tabloid editor, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, added: “It’s a disaster for them from a PR point of view, but I don’t think it will affect their circulation, certainly not the Star. It might make everyone more cautious, but I doubt that will last.”
DAILY MIRROR: “SHANNON STEPDAD HITS BACK - I NEVER LAID A FINGER ON HER.”
THAT “Express apology - By Robert Shrimsley”
We now acknowledge there is no evidence whatsoever to support our theory that repeating this rubbish every day on our front page did in fact bring us any extra readers. We furthermore recognise that we should have stuck to the Diana inquest, given that she is dead and can’t sue.
Sun: “TWO British sisters have revealed they saw oddball Robert Murat lurking by the Portuguese holiday apartment from which Madeleine McCann vanished”
As an expression of our regret we are going to spend the next few weeks hounding Heather Mills in the hope this does the trick.
She’s blonde. So she’ll do.
Express front pages to look out for:
DIANA – IS SHE DEAD?
KATE McCANN – WE CANNOT APOLOGISE ENOUGH (every day)
ANTHEA TURNER – MY BLONDE HELL
Posted: 20th, March 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Madeleine McCann, Tabloids Comments (770) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
