In a statement issued by their solicitors Hextalls LLP, they also rebutted Ridsdale's claim he had no way of contacting Langston and that the club's only point of contact had been former owner Sam Hammam.

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At that point, attention focused on the world's only point of contact with the cardinals: A slim smokestack protruding from the top of the Sistine Chapel.

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So the next Conservative Government will scrap the Contact Point database of children's details.

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