Dave Brown, from Lancashire, works for the global services arm of BT, told BBC Five Live that agency and contract staff were taken on in the knowledge they would be the first to go.

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Trog, aka Wally Fawkes, has her as a jolly knockabout figure with tombstone teeth pulling pints in the bar of the TV soap "EastEnders, " but the angry brigade, Martin Rowson and Steve Bell of the Guardian and Dave Brown of the Independent, emphasize the grotesque.

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Among them: Kevin Brown, Dave Stieb, Rick Reuschel and Tommy John.

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