Daily Mirror dated Wednesday August 7th
1996
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With childhood memories of Dan Dare and radio’s ‘Journey
into Space’ serials this headline was greeted with a smug ‘told you so’, but dreams
are made to be shattered. It was soon disclosed that the rock sample in which
evidence of life on Mars was found, had been contaminated here on Earth. But it
still makes a great headline.
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Then as now. According to the BBC, Barclays Bank
made £5.9 billions profit in 2012.
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Another pun headline that doesn’t quite work.
Ok, so he’s a fork-lift driver but the phrase ‘forking out’ implies he’s making
reluctant payments from his £1.4m lottery win. Or is it me?
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In July 1996 Caroline Dickinson was murdered while on a
school trip to France. Having arrested and released Patrice Pade, the French
police arrested another vagrant in 1998 but had to release him too. In 2001 a
Spaniard, Francisco Montes, was arrested in Florida for breaking into a woman's
apartment and a US Immigration officer connected him to the killing of
Caroline. DNA tests proved positive and he was extradited to France. In 2004 he
was convicted of the killing and got 30 years in prison.
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Newspapers do occasionally print apologies when they get
things wrong, but like this one, it is likely to be 1 column inch at the bottom of
page 14 and 9 months too late. I wonder if the writer of this piece will print
an apology to his or her English teacher for not being able to spell ‘school’.
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Remember when the coming of computers in
business was hailed as the arrival of the ‘paperless office’. It didn’t happen.
Nor has the people-less office with everyone working from home as predicted
here. With desktop PC’s, such as this one advertised on the same page, it’s not
surprising.
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What’s to say? Bob Morgan was a diver. He won a gold medal
at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland. He couldn’t afford to train
properly for the Olympics despite representing the UK four times. "I coulda beena contender.."
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