Stories from 1997:

Satanism in Sussex

Published March 1997. No comments... »

Lewes is the kind of old English town that tourists like on postcards, with a flag
fluttering over a Norman castle and good old pubs in twisting streets of antique
homes and churches. It is an island of colour and calm, protected from the rolling
green waves of the Sussex Downs by a tall white cliff of battered chalk which
strikes out southwards from its eastern flank like a gigantic breakwater.
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It was from the summit of this soaring cliff, shortly after noon on Wednesday April
17 last year, that a young man tumbled 300 feet to his death.

A paedophile ring in Amsterdam

Published March 1997. No comments... »

It is an ordinary flat. The camera pans around the room catching sight of a bookshelf full of paperbacks, a desk which is untidy with letters and files, a couple of paintings on the wall, a chair or two, and then the doorway, the blank open doorway, and, as the camera waits, a man suddenly appears there. The only sound is the quiet crackle of the video tape.

Scotland Yard and the Yardie gangsters (news story and feature)

Published January 1997. No comments... »

News story -

Freemasons in the police

Published January 1997. No comments... »

Today the Guardian publishes for the first time what we believe is a unique photograph. It pierces the wall of secrecy which surrounds one of Britain’s most mysterious organisations by revealing a large gathering of London policemen wearing the white gloves, embroidered sashes and lambskin aprons of the worshipful order of freemasonry.

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