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Overview"January 19, 2016. ""Mother, when we were babies in the 60s how many times did our father get up early to change our nappies?"" My mother, of me and my two brothers, now 84 laughed. She bounced her eighth grandchild on her knee. ""On a scale of zero to one?"" I helped ""Never,"" she replied laughing again. It was too ridiculous." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Paul McMullanPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.376kg ISBN: 9781523840304ISBN 10: 1523840307 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 11 February 2016 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor Information"McMullan started his newspaper career at the Sunday Sport.[1] He went on to work as a features journalist at the now-defunct News of the World between 1994 and 2001, briefly becoming deputy features editor in 2000. In 2011, McMullan admitted to regrets over a series of articles he had written in the 1990s about Jennifer Elliott, the daughter of the late actor Denholm Elliott. McMullan had obtained information from the police that she had been living on the streets and working as a prostitute. She committed suicide in 2003.[2] In July 2011, actor Steve Coogan described him as ""morally bankrupt"" after appearing with him on BBC Newsnight. Hugh Grant attempted to secretly tape him making claims about phone hacking in a visit to McMullan's pub, The Castle Inn in Dover. McMullan asked Grant during the conversation, ""Are you taping me? If you are, good luck to you; I don't really care anyway."" He was one of only a few journalists to claim on the record that phone hacking was rife at the newspaper. In November 2011 he made a notable contribution to the Leveson Inquiry where he not only confessed to a wide range of illegal activities in the pursuit of news but defended them as absolutely necessary" Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |