Day 246 - 09 May 96 - Page 50


     
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     2   MR. MORRIS:  It might help actually to take the top page off and
     3        put it next to the other one because it is in fact a one A3
     4        article.  This is dated 25th October 1988.
     5        A.  OK.
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     7   Q.   It is an article by Jan Walsh in The Daily Mirror and there
     8        are a couple of questions I was going to ask about it.
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    10        If you look on the second of the two pages in the column
    11        under the name "Walsh" which starts off with "glands or any
    12        other offal"; yes?
    13        A.  Yes, I see that.
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    15   Q.   Halfway down that column, 2 paragraphs down that column, it
    16        says:
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    18        "There are sugary McDonald's shakes too about 10 level tea
    19        spoonfuls full and though the vanilla flavour has only
    20        natural colours the strawberry and chocolate varieties, oh
    21        they are pretty cute, .......(read to the words)....... and
    22        E123 and E110"; correct?
    23        A.  Yes.
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    25   Q.   If you note at the bottom of the page, it has a reference
    26        to "E110 suspected hyperactivity effects" and "E123
    27        Amaranth causes rashes and hyperactivity"; yes?
    28        A.  Yes.
    29
    30   Q.   In the chart below.
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    32   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What are going to ask Mr. Preston about?
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    34   MR. MORRIS:  Do you accept that concerns over hyperactivity and
    35        certain E numbers are ----
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    37   MR. RAMPTON:  No, my Lord, no.  I have been very patient.  This
    38        is the wrong way to cross-examine anyway as we all know.
    39        Even the Defendants know this now.
    40
    41        Their case on additives, for which they called Dr.
    42        Millstone, who I think was an expert in physics, or
    43        philosophy or something, was that these additives actually
    44        as a matter of scientific fact have these effects.
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    46   MR. MORRIS:  May have these effects.
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    48   MR. RAMPTON:  Not that there are concerns whether in The Daily
    49        Mirror or anywhere else.
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    51   MR. MORRIS:  They would go to our state of mind, the fact that 
    52         ---- 
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    54   MR. RAMPTON:  Well, then the Defendants can give evidence about
    55        it.
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    57   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Mr. Preston cannot possibly help on that. By
    58        means when you give evidence say you read The Daily Mirror,
    59        you believe every word which is written in the Daily
    60        Mirror, and therefore you believe this, but Mr. Preston

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