Archive for September, 2008

A replacement post…

September 22nd, 2008 • Peter • 1 comment • Related • Filed Under

Before I start I’d better make it clear that it is actually Peter’s daughter, Alice, posting here. I apologise profusely to those of you who have been refreshing this page for the past week or so, confused and impatient, waiting eagerly for the gems usually posted by my wise father, but I’m afraid you may have to wait a little bit longer. Dad is currently very busy boring the nurses in Stoke on Trent hospital with the same kind of story, I imagine, that he normally bores you with on this site! I am joking of course, about the boring bit, not about the hospital bit.

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News of the World’s ‘Honest Stu’ Kuttner in Court

September 10th, 2008 • Peter • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

Matt Driscoll was a hard-working, straight-writing, experienced sports journalist on the News of the World. He’d been told by his boss, Mike Dunn that he was shortly to be promoted chief sports writer. But incoming editor Andy Coulson took against him, and Driscoll was bombarded with a series of baseless disciplinary charges to force him to resign. He subsequently developed a stress-related illness, on the basis of which Coulson and his managing editor, Stuart Kuttner dismissed him. Driscoll has been unable to work since.

Last week the Employment Tribunal at Stratford, East London held the second hearing into the case which Driscoll has brought against the paper for unfair dismissal and disability discrimination.

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Sea, sand and the Fake Sheikh

September 2nd, 2008 • Peter • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

The wi-fi is a little erratic at the Druidston Hotel, perched on a cliff top in the western extremities of Wales. But wi-fi of any sort is unexpected in the wonderful other-timeliness, which is part of the unique charm of this place, one of the loveliest hotels in Wales, if not Britain. Communications are thus a little tortuous, and encourage more time for the greedy filling of lungs with ozone charged with sea spray, heather and bracken while striding the hairy undulations of the coast path.

Nature chucks in a soundtrack of twittering oyster catchers, keening gulls and squawking choughs (oh yes, Mr Oddie), supported by the ceaseless thud and hiss of waves onto the broad sands of Druidston Haven.

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