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Published 06 March 2000

My own grandparents plan to stay in touch with him when he's out of prison. My grandmother told me he'd never done anything to upset them, so why should they hold a grudge. But this man planned to have me killed. - Woman's Own (M McNamara)

An evangelist organisation which claimed its prophets could cure Aids, enable the disabled to walk and make "barren women and impotent men jump for joy" has been rapped by the Advertising Standards Authority for failing to substantiate any of its claims. - Time Out (Francis Harvey)

Ms Tudor, a tax consultant, said: "They are saying because I can't prove the cancer wasn't invasive in 1991 it probably was invasive, so although they were negligent in 1995 I'd already suffered the damage so it isn't their problem." -Ham & High (Sigrid Rabiger)

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