Sunday Times 16 May:
PIERS MORGAN is demanding £1m compensation from the Daily Mirror after being sacked as its editor for publishing hoax pictures of British soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners.
Sources close to Morgan said that he expected his two-year rolling contract to be honoured in full by the paper, which was forced [Saturday] to publish a humiliating apology for the fiasco.
This weekend friends of Morgan said that even now he did not accept that the paper had been proved to be in the wrong.
He is understood to have been on a £350,000 salary but his annual package was worth almost £500,000, including use of a company flat in London.
Strange smell of roses around here.
