ferris,
well as you call it the "UK" Independant has been show to be seriously lacking in investigative journalism & so to the other media outlets you mentioned-CNN even apologized 2 days ago during their "World sport" segment for a bogus story.
Mr Bernie has had a long standing agreement with a certain Aussie friend of his regarding the F1 opener being in Oz but due to Bahrain's contact as the ONLY middle east F1 & Abu Dhabi's entry into the F1 arena things had to change, hence Oz lost the opener & it still hurts those ex cons.