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Nottingham Post vindicated over reporting of police attack briefing

Nottingham Post vindicated over reporting of police attack briefing

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Nottinghamshire Live’s homepage coverage of the IPSO decision Update 18 October 2024: The Nottingham branch of the NUJ has issued an open letter hailing the Nottingham Post’s IPSO win over Nottinghamshire Police as “a victory for the free press”. The letter, addressed to Nottingham Post editor Natalie Fahy, can be found in full at the bottom of this article. Original story, 19 September 2024: The Nottingham Post has been vindicated after publishing articles about a “non-disclosable” police briefing relating to a stabbing attack that rocked the city last year. The Reach-owned title reported in February and March that Nottinghamshire Police had held a “non-disclosable briefing” for press about contact they had with Valdo Calocane before he committed a triple murder spree. In June last year Calocane stabbed to death two university students, Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley, and school caretaker Ian Coates. Thanks for subscribing. Close The Nottingham Post and its website Nottinghamshire Live published the headline: “Police don’t want us to tell whole story of attacks investigation / Police ask Post not to publish details …

Complaint rejected over article linking Doug Barrowman to suicides

Complaint rejected over article linking Doug Barrowman to suicides

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Baroness Michelle Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman. Picture: PA Media The Daily Mail was justified in reporting that businessman Douglas Barrowman made millions from tax avoidance schemes that led to suicides, according to press regulator IPSO. Barrowman, the husband of Tory Peer Baroness Michelle Mone, claimed an article headlined: “How Baroness Bra’s (equally flashy) husband made £300m from dubious tax-avoidance schemes that ruined thousands and led to two suicides” was inaccurate. The piece, from January 2024, reported that Barrowman was “behind a company that, for most of the 2010s, sold flawed tax schemes to mostly middle-class workers”. It said that, when the scheme “unravelled”, “clients were left facing huge tax bills”, and it reported many were “financially ruined and at least two former customers of his firms have since committed suicide”. Barrowman argued the deaths had come about because of HMRC’s conduct in recouping the funds, not because of the scheme itself or his actions. Thanks for subscribing. Close The article also described Barrowman as a “roly-poly Scottish businessman” with “cocktail-sausage fingers” and “recently …

Cash for questions Tory MP has IPSO complaint against The Times rejected

Cash for questions Tory MP has IPSO complaint against The Times rejected

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Former MP Scott Benton filmed by The Times offering to ask question on behalf of a gambling company for cash A Conservative MP filmed undercover by The Times offering to lobby on behalf of the gambling industry for cash has had a complaint to press regulator IPSO rejected. The Times invented a lobbying company and secretly filmed Scott Benton MP agreeing to submit parliamentary questions and leak an unpublished white paper in exchange for between £2,000 and £4,000 per month. Benton said the article breached Clause 10 of the Editors’ Code which says journalists cannot use subterfuge unless acting in the public interest. The MP said there was no public interest in the story because it did not expose wrongdoing. The Times told IPSO that “if an elected representative was not acting with selflessness, integrity, accountability and openness, the public had a right to know and that – following various parliamentary lobbying scandals – the publication decided to re-examine this issue”. Thanks for subscribing. Close IPSO said: “The Public Interest portion of the Editors’ Code …

Trump International golf resort loses complaint against Scotsman

Trump International golf resort loses complaint against Scotsman

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Sign for Trump International Golf Links Scotland in Aberdeenshire. Picture: Shutterstock/iweta0077 Donald Trump‘s golf resort in Aberdeenshire has lost a complaint to the UK’s biggest press regulator against The Scotsman over two articles about its food hygiene standards. Trump International Golf Club Scotland Limited, for which Trump’s sons Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump are listed as directors on Companies House, claimed the article was inaccurate because it “created a false narrative that the resort was currently operating an unsafe environment for consumers and that the problems were ongoing”. The first article, published on 16 September last year, reported that the Trump International Golf Links resort in Scotland failed to “achieve a pass grade under a national food hygiene scheme” and had been served an “improvement notice” the previous year. Some of the issues reportedly included “[d]irty chopping boards and appliances, food handlers failing to wash their hands properly, and sausage meat found to be nearly three months out of date”. The second article was a leader column headlined “Make Trump resort restaurant great again” …

IPSO rules on Sun reporting claim that Hamas ‘beheaded babies’

IPSO rules on Sun reporting claim that Hamas ‘beheaded babies’

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The Sun front page splash referring to ‘beheaded babies’ claim on 11 October 2023 UK press regulator IPSO has ruled for the first time on a newspaper repeating the claim that Hamas “beheaded babies” in Israel during the 7 October massacre. IPSO said The Sun had presented the information as a claim rather than stating it as fact and therefore did not breach the accuracy rules in the Editors’ Code of Practice. The Sun reported on its front page on 11 October that “savages ‘beheaded babies’ in massacre” and “terrorists from Hamas also reportedly beheaded babies in a barbaric rampage through a nearby Israeli village which left 40 youngsters dead”. A complaint made to IPSO said this was an “unsubstantiated and false… sensationalist claim which had been debunked by various media and fact-checking agencies and there was no evidence to support this claim”. Although US president Joe Biden appeared to say on 11 October that he had seen pictures of beheaded children, the White House later clarified that neither Biden nor US officials had “seen …

IPSO backs Mail use of subterfuge for asylum investigation

IPSO backs Mail use of subterfuge for asylum investigation

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Daily Mail front page “Lawyers charging up to £10,000 to make fake asylum claims” A British Journalism Award-nominated Daily Mail investigation that used undercover reporters acted in the public interest, press regulator IPSO has ruled. The Daily Mail published its special investigation into immigration law firms, headlined “Lawyers charging up to £10,000 to make fake asylum claims”, on its front page on 25 July. A second article published on the same day was headlined: “Don’t admit you came here to work – they will send you back’.” The Mail reported that it had exposed lawyers “who charge between £4,000 and £10,000 for their services, invented elaborate fake stories to back up” false asylum and human rights claims. Investigations editor Tom Kelly and assistant investigations editor Izzy Lyons were finalists for the Investigation of the Year category at the British Journalism Awards in December for their work, carried out with two freelance journalists who went undercover. Thanks for subscribing. Close Rashid Khan, a solicitor who was filmed in a meeting with undercover reporters and quoted and …