There is strong evidence that the Beeb - which has no mandate from anyone in the government or from the licence payer to divert licence fee funds to on-line publishing - is recruiting on the cheap and further dumbing down its previous rigorous standards.

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Mr Jones has suggested that the newspaper was trying to pre-empt a judicial gag order by publishing first on-line.

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Given that the company is now larger, has a more dominant position in publishing and is the world leader on the trend to on-line retail it is a very good stock to own.

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