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Old 1st Feb 2013, 23:59
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Archimedes
 
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Aren't we about due the statutory 'Victory for [name of tabloid] as Red Arrows saved' campaign based upon someone seeing/claiming to have seen a document for the next PR? The Express won that campaign in the latter days of the Blair government, then again when Brown was PM, and then handed the baton over to the Mail, who failed miserably to claim victory in a story so badly handled (Reds banned from flying over Olympics because they'll upset illegal immigrants who've driven house prices down, or something like that) that it died a death very quickly.

I assume that after the Mail's inability to carry a made up story through to a successful conclusion, the cabal of tabloid editors stripped them of their right to have a second attempt and passed it on to the Mirror instead. I look forward to learning via these means that their campaign has been successful in due course and learning which organ has been tasked with fighting this essential campaign in the 2015 'crap defence related stories' season.
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