But the presidential "assent" was announced Sunday in the government-controlled newspaper, The Sunday Mail.
Professor Hugh Pennington was speaking after a report, published in the Sunday Mail, said low quality beef was passed off as lamb in one in three curries tested by the Food Standards Agency.
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The Sunday Mail, the Sunday Post and Scotland on Sunday all saw their sales drop below key milestones: The Sunday Mail's circulation fell below 300, 000, the Post's below 250, 000 and Scotland on Sunday's below 40, 000.
Mr Dacre, also editor-in-chief of Associated Newspapers, publishers of the Mail and the Mail on Sunday, said he would withdraw the "smears" statement if Grant withdrew his claims the Daily Mail or Mail on Sunday were involved in phone hacking.
The other publications named in the report are: the Sunday Mirror, Daily Sport, The People, Daily Mail's Weekend Magazine, Sunday Express, The Sun, Closer magazine, Sunday Sport, Mail on Sunday's Night and Day, News of the World, Daily Express, Sunday Business News, Daily Record, the Express' Saturday, Sunday Mirror Magazine, Real Magazine, Daily Mirror Magazine, Mail in Ireland, Daily Star, Marie Claire, Personal Magazine and Sunday World.
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In a statement the Blairs expressed frustration that their wish to keep the ceremony private had been ignored by the publication of pictures in the Sunday Mirror, The People and the Mail On Sunday.
Last year nearly 100 jobs were cut at the Daily Record and Sunday Mail in Glasgow while in 2010 the bulk of staff at the Sunday Times in Glasgow lost their jobs when the paper scaled back its Scottish edition.
Mr Alderson was a freelance journalist working to provide the story to the Mail on Sunday, the court heard.
An Electoral Commission is set up, of course, to marshal the process as well as oversee many other election-related matters, as we saw in the paper review the Mail on Sunday is leading with this claim of vote-rigging, so who better to tell us about both these issues than the Chairman of the Commission, Sam Younger.
Cross-examining at Southwark Crown Court, Andrew Edis QC said Ms Pryce, an economist, had taken the speeding story to the Mail on Sunday and Sunday Times because she wanted to destroy her husband in an act of revenge.
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Key players, I'm told, were the Telegraph's Lord Black who is the key fix-it man for the industry, Associated Newspapers' Peter Wright, who is the former editor of the Mail on Sunday, the editor of the Times John Witherow and the editor of the FT Lionel Barber.
Icstis spokesman Rob Dwight said the regulator would ask to view the evidence that led to the Mail on Sunday article.
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"The Lions experience was not good for Jonny - I thought he was handled poorly, " the former England player told The Mail on Sunday newspaper.
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Proposed cuts to the number of journalists at the Daily Record and Sunday Mail newspapers were raised in the Scottish Parliament yesterday, at First Minister's Questions.
He said Ms Pryce's claims in court were "bare-faced lies" and it was "rubbish" for her to say she had not wanted to place the stories about Huhne in the Mail on Sunday.
The group, which publishes the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, The People, Daily Record and Sunday Mail, as well as 160 local and regional newspapers, has struggled to cope with falling circulations and the transfer of classified advertising to the internet.
"It's absolute rubbish to suggest my England career is over and that I've decided to call it a day on the international scene, " Ince said in The Mail on Sunday.
But the commentator, James Forsyth, writes in the Mail on Sunday that all three main parties could do badly, because the poll looks like being the latest act in UKIP's dramatic rise.
Such is the influence of this kind of drama that the Mail on Sunday ran an article criticising ITV1's flagship Sunday evening costume drama, Downton Abbey, for apparently unwelcome "breakneck" pace in the second series.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister David Cameron has dismissed criticism of the fall in GCSE results in an article in the Mail on Sunday.
Education Secretary Michael Gove has offered his support to the proposed legalisation of same-sex marriage but told the Mail on Sunday teachers would not be disciplined for refusing to promote it.
The court also heard that Ms Pryce had falsely told the Mail on Sunday that Huhne's political aide - Liberal Democrat official Jo White - had taken the points, so she would not "get into trouble".
"Whatever we hear at our security briefing, I reserve the right to make my own decision to fly home on Monday if it is the right thing to do, " he wrote in the Mail on Sunday.
Former England striker Gary Lineker , an ambassador for the 2018 campaign, has resigned as a columnist on the Mail on Sunday in protest at their publishing of the Triesman story, claiming it had "undermined the bid".
"Ms Briscoe has provided statements to the police in this case, but during the investigation it became apparent that she may have lied about her involvement with the press and that she denied having any contact with the Mail on Sunday or any other media organisation in relation to this story, " his statement said.
The Press Complaints Commission, a toothless official watchdog, recently censured the Mail on Sunday for a story it wrote about a government minister and his wife who adopted a baby in America.
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The organisation's interim operations director Nigel Gooding resigned, telling the Mail on Sunday he left the job for the sake of his "health and sanity", although he said he had not been hounded out by MPs.
But the Glasgow-based Sunday Mail, Scotland's biggest weekly, rose less than 4% in the year that its main rival closed.
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