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.
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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.
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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
