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SPOOKS & SCOOPS
The Sunday Times is mired in internal tension after it emerged the spouse of a senior staffer had done some highly controversial digging on two of its writers.

GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL
Former Mail editor Paul Dacre kept his famous temper under wraps as a witness in the case brought by Prince Harry and others against the company.

INSIGHT STORY
The Sunday Times has ditched Insight, its investigations team that has been running in one form or another since the 1960s.

CAPITOL GAINS
The Telegraph has been given a permanent position in the White House press room, after more than a year of brown-nosing the Trump regime.

INKING SHIP
The latest move in Reach plc's promised "further optimisation of the print business" is the closure of two of its three printing plants.

A MIGRANT WRITES...
Isabel Oakeshott wrote in the Telegraph about "horror of modern slavery", but she seems unconcerned about her country of residence's own record on slavery.

PETERING OUT
The media spoke with one voice in demanding to know how anyone could have been fooled into backing Peter Mandelson. They have short memories…

DUNE BUDDIES
After welcoming Mail columnist Boris Johnson last year, the Saudi Media Forum booked another conference special guest: Times editor Tony Gallagher.

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Mind matters
MD on mental health in the NHS

Spooks & scoops
Bizarre internal strife at the Sunday Times

Midterm mayhem
Trump's disturbing plans for the November elections

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