Diana’s gone, and the Press be damned
By Roy Greenslade

IT was an ordinary sort of Monday for London’s Daily Mail newspaper on July 27: a news story about teachers being allowed to deal with unruly pupils, a polemic on the eve of Prime Minister Tony Blair’s reshuffle and some fluff about the Spice Girls achieving their seventh number one hit. But eclipsing them all, across the top of the front page, was a blurb announcing: "Free Diana Fashion Video For Every Reader" next to a mandatory picture of a smiling, designer-dressed Princess.

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