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Totally past it

In another case, a woman who complained of feeling “sick” after eating turkey slices 11 days past their best-before date was offered £20 from the till to buy medicine by a Sainsbury’s manager.

London Evening Standard (Ron Rubin)

Stretched too thinly

Milton Keynes journalists talk passionately about a team stretched so thinly it is impossible for them to do their jobs properly. Says Karen Jeffrey: “When I started at the Milton Keynes Citizen as an eager trainee, we did death knocks, we covered court, attended inquests; our carefully nurtured contacts rang in. Now there’s no time to train the trainees, so they think this is what journalists do – sit at desks, sifting through press releases, making hurried phone calls.”

Tribune (Kate Baker)

The Top 20 Comp Entrants for 2007

And their positions in previous years

	2007	’06	’05	’04	’03	’02	’01	’00	’99	’98
1	David Silverman	1	1	1	2	2	2	7	6	6
2	Adrian Fry	3	2	12	4	=11	=12	2	=11	-
3	Basil Ransome-Davies	=7	12	8	3	3	7	6	8	5
4	John O’Byrne	=7	=9	4	9	14	8	4	4	8
5	Anne Du Croz	6	3	11	8	6	=9	8	5	2
6	Shirley Curran	5	=9	=14	-	-	-	-	-	-
7	Bill Greenwell	2	4	2	1	-	-	-	-	-
8	Alanna Blake	=17	-	-	-	-	-	=18	-	12
=9	Neil Rennick	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
=9	Josh Ekroy	=19	5	=5	7	-	-	-	-	-
11	Ian Birchall	=7	5	7	5	5	4	5	2	4
12	Gerard Benson	-	18	-	=20	-	18	-	-	-
13	Patrick O’Byrne	=17	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
14	Mike Berry	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
15	John Purkis	=19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
=16	D A Prince	11	5	3	11	9	6	3	10	11
=16	Katie Mallett	=19	13	=14	=12	-	15	15	=14	-
=16	Sid Field	12	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
=19	J Seery	4	14	13	-	-	=19	=20	-	-
=19	Michael Cregan	=19	=16	9	6	7	=12	11	=14	14

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