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Celebrity Big Brother
- Biggins’s bisexual
comments were not
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Entertainment
supremo Steven
D Wright talks to
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Winter
2016
May 2016
Prince Harry
steps in to protect
new girlfriend
Meghan Markle 28
Donald and Melania Trump in the libel
courts, as he vows to strengthen US laws
n Donald Trump has succeeded in
having a defamation claim against him
struck out by the High Court in London.
Muslim politician Kamran Malik and the
Communities United Party were seeking
damages over a number of comments,
including one that areas of London were
so radicalised that the police were afraid.
This was said to reflect on Muslims
in a particular area of Forest Gate.
Unsurprisingly, the comments were
found by the Court not to be capable of
being the subject of a defamation claim.
At the same time, it is reported that
Melania Trump has begun defamation
proceedings against the Daily Mail in
both London and Maryland, US. The
article in question referred to her ‘very
racy past’, and included the reporting
of allegations that Mrs Trump’s former
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