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News International dispute: Wapping & Kinning Park re-visited

15 September 2016 By CPBF Leave a Comment

by Alan Richardson In January 1986, a momentous year-long industrial dispute began when Rupert Murdoch, owner of four of Britain’s leading newspapers The Sun, News of the World, The Times and The Sunday Times, moved production from Fleet Street to a secretly equipped and heavily guarded plant at Wapping, in east London. At the same time a new plant was secretly developed at … [Read more...]

Their master’s voice loud and clear

30 June 2016 By Tim Gopsill Leave a Comment

ADRIAN DENNIS

By Tim Gopsill The British press simply refuses to die. The more we are told that the newspapers have had their day, the more they seem to run the show. In all the confusion over the conflicting claims in the UK’s EU referendum, the only clear line was that the press was 4-1 for quitting. Voters said they didn’t have a clue what the real pros and cons might have been, so … [Read more...]

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