Ms Dowd would not answer questions about whether a diary, described a Sunday Times article as "dynamite", had been ruled inadmissible as evidence.

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Another fault was that a monitoring diary was not properly filled in.

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From the time he published his first story in 1833 till his death in 1870, Dickens was frantically busy, not only with his writing but also with a crammed social diary and taxing commitments to charities, causes and campaigns.

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He acknowledged that rule might not allow the thorough search of a container that included other personal information, like a diary.

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Whilst research in more recent years has begun to move away from focusing on the successes or failures of a small number of generals, the diary has remained central to an understanding of not just the role played by Haig, but of the British Army, her generals and her allies.

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