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The Guardian - UK
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Roy Greenslade

Leicester paper bans comments on missing girl

The Leicester Mercury has had to ban comments on its website stories about the missing girl, Madeleine McCann, because of defamatory comments about her parents. Editor Nick Carter said: "A tiny minority of people seem to want to say nasty, spiteful and defamatory things about the McCann family. They are bombarding our site, and we had no choice but to block comment entirely on reports about the family." (Via Daily Mail)

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