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Originally Posted by Tim Deegan
You really need to know your subject before you comment.
Local newspapers will report on wheelie bin fires, and ducklings being rescued. On lighter news days a 2 year old and his mother being rescued from a house fire would actually make national news.
And no it doesn't happen on a daily basis...thankfully. The same as firefighters being killed on duty (doing their job for the safety of others), doesn't happen on a regular basis either...but it does happen far too often. And it happens more often now than at any time since the second world war.
As I said, a request using a D-Notice is as good as a block, if you look into other possible implications if they don't comply.
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Tim ,i suggest you read up on DA notices and find out how they work before you dig the hole your in any deeper.The government can't issue a DA notice without putting it through a committee made up of a few civil servants ,the associate editor of Sky News and currently 14 editors and executives from the media including Google ,not one single member of the government sits on the committee .So if you think that all those media representatives would allow the government to use a system that is only to be used to prevent sensitive material getting into the public domain be used on a poxy little story about firemen saving a mother and child from a house fire in stevenage then you are more deluded than captain deluded who lives on the planet deluded
you may wish to read this
http://www.dnotice.org.uk/faqs.htm#5