Mr. Young asked Donna Kush, assistant vice president for corporate communications, to brief the board last October, just before the railroad operator launched its first national advertising campaign in nearly a decade.

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Assistant Chief Constable James Vaughan told the inquest the officers involved had behaved correctly, but the control room operator had failed to carry out a full eight-point risk assessment.

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