Monday, February 28, 2005

Media Roundup

Daily Telegraph 28th February - How V2 menace terrorised Whitehall
"Top secret papers reveal that flawed intelligence led to fear of 100,000 deaths in London in first month of rockets. Ben Fenton reports"

Daily Telegraph 28th February - 8,000 items go 'missing' from British Library
"British Library managers insisted yesterday that security was still tight at the £511 million premises in central London. Confirming figures revealed by its new crime audit and made public under the Freedom of Information Act, a spokesman said: "We are talking about 8,000 books, documents and recordings out of a total collection of 160 million, which is a tiny percentage."

Sunday Times 27th February - Food labels of confusion at Tesco
"The misleading Boulders blurb is one of more than 20 incidents of suspected mislabelling that trading standards officers have found in an eight-week period after testing Tesco products. All were recorded in December and January by Hertfordshire trading standards, which collects reports from other trading standards offices around the country. The documents were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act; similar reports for other supermarket chains have yet to be released"

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