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Sorry, Arthur, Roy Greenslade. Media Guardian 27.5.02., pp2-3.

In 1990 the Daily Mirror, edited by Greenslade, smeared the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) president, Arthur Scargill, stating that he had misused donations intended for miners' during the 1984-85 strike. Here, some twelve years after the events, Greenslade offers a mea culpa: "I am now convinced that Scargill didn't misuse strike funds and that the union didn't get money from Libya. I also concede that, given the supposed wealth of [the] Mirror and the state of NUM finances, it was understandable that Scargill didn't sue." He also cites former MI5 head Stella Rimmington, who denies that the main source for the story (former NUM executive, Roger Windsor) was working for MI5.

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