They are director of Liberty, Shami Chakrabarti, the former chief constable of the West Midlands Sir Paul Scott-Lee, former chairman of Ofcom Lord David Currie, former political editor of Channel 4 news Elinor Goodman, former Daily Telegraph political editor George Jones, and former FT chairman Sir David Bell.

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The Daily Telegraph's legal affairs editor Joshua Rozenberg said Lord Phillips' remarks reflected a general mood among the judiciary that mandatory sentencing had tied their hands.

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Sir Peregrine Worsthorne, former editor of the Sunday Telegraph, said the take-over was a sign of "national decline".

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Malcolm Brodie, the renowned former sports editor of the Belfast Telegraph has died.

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Former political editor of the Daily Telegraph, George Jones said he thought Mr Hague had clearly shown "lapses of judgement".

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Lord Deedes, MP for 24 years before becoming editor of the Daily Telegraph, wants managers to keep on older staff.

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Former editor of the Daily Telegraph Sir Max Hastings suggested that Prince William could succeed to the the throne ahead of his father.

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Polly Toynbee of the Guardian accused Charles Moore, editor of the Daily Telegraph, of wilful misinterpretation after he wrote a long attack on the report.

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Current sports editor of the Belfast Telegraph Group, Jim Gracey, said Dr Brodie had "taught a generation, maybe two or three generations everything we know about journalism".

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Lord Black's greatest stroke of luck, however, was his purchase in 1986 of the ailing Daily Telegraph, Britain's biggest-selling quality newspaper, thanks to the help of a former editor of The Economist, Andrew Knight.

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