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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-104549 0/Greece-dangerous-place-world-British-women-4 1-raped-year.html

Does this say something about British Women or Greek Men?

anotheoldgit Sat 16/08/08 13:48

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sp1814
Sat 16/08/08
14:02

Neither.

I extracted the following from the new story:

"The men responsible were mainly drunken British men, followed by Eastern European migrant workers with Greeks in third place.

So it would appear that British men are the main culprits here.

Ethel
Sat 16/08/08
14:06

Another knee jerk reaction to the headlines.

Headlines are sensationalised - the whole article always needs to be read, and preferably in several different media to get the true picture

anotheoldgit
Sat 16/08/08
14:13

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Police say British women appear to be particularly vulnerable compared with other foreign women because they drink heavily and because they are 'na've' in befriending strangers and in accepting lifts home.

British women do not come out very well, it seems.

scotgal
Sat 16/08/08
14:18

How wise you are Ethel. We are very lucky here to have an old established newspaper here which unlike the tabloids does not seek sensationalism to sell papers and does cover stories from all over the globe, not just local news so I do tend to set more store by it than the other rags.

anotheoldgit
Sat 16/08/08
14:37

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Well scotgal, please tell the rest of us what this 'old established rag is called'.

You never know, perhaps some will change their reading habits.

scotgal
Sat 16/08/08
14:40

It's called the Press & Journal.

anotheoldgit
Sat 16/08/08
15:00

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Thanks scotgal.

http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Default.aspx? UserKey=0

anotheoldgit
Sat 16/08/08
15:09

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Checked your paper out scotgal' it's about on par with the Guardian (see my post Daily Mail v The Guardian) So I don't think I will be changing.

Although in it's favour the Antigua story in the Press & Journel was yesterdays news.

scotgal
Sat 16/08/08
15:20

I'm not a reader of the Guardian so I can't comment but I do sometimes read the Daily Mail because I always take a national paper as well as my local one. My only comment would be that you don't often if ever see the P & J involved in legal suits because as I stated before they don't use sensationalism to sell papers.

anotheoldgit
Sat 16/08/08
15:45

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Never heard of him.

anotheoldgit
Sat 16/08/08
17:33

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scotgal

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/2008/08/15/pictur es-penguin-from-edinburgh-zoo-picks-up-knighth ood-115875-20698495/

Nothing about this story in your paper, scotgal, which comes as somewhat of a suprise, seeing that it is a Scottish story, and has been widely reported elsewhere.

scotgal
Sat 16/08/08
17:43

That's odd anotheold - it's on page 21 of my hard copy along with a rather fetching photograph of Nils who is quite handsome isn't he?

anotheoldgit
Sun 17/08/08
10:53

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Yes scotgal, and I think he knows he is.

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