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Barclay brothers withdraw complaint


Telegraph proprietors Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay have withdrawn their complaint about the Independent's media columnist, Stephen Glover Glov´er

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The Barclay brothers had complained via their solicitor about the alleged implication in Glover's column on March 24 that the proprietors interfered in the editorial management of the group.

But today their solicitor issued a statement after Glover used his column in this week's Media Weekly section of the Independent to clarify his position.

"In the light of Mr Glover's column yesterday, my clients will not be pursuing the matter about which they previously complained," said Jennifer McDermott, of law firm Withers withers

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The Barclays had complained about Glover's reference to the Telegraph Media Group's reaction to a recent biography of former Daily Telegraph editor Bill Deedes William Francis Deedes, Baron Deedes, KBE, MC, PC, DL (1 June 1913 – 17 August, 2007) was a British journalist and politician. He is the only person in Britain to have been both a member of the British cabinet and the editor of a major daily newspaper. .

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A review of the book in the Spectator Spectator, English daily periodical published jointly by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele with occasional contributions from other writers. It succeeded the Tatler, a periodical begun by Steele on Apr. 12, 1709, under the pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff. , which is also owned by the Barclays, was altered to imply that Deedes' comment was directed at staff rather than management, to the dismay of the writer, former Sunday Telegraph deputy editor Peregrine Worsthorne Sir Peregrine Gerard Worsthorne (born December 22, 1923) is a British journalist, writer and broadcaster. He was educated at Stowe School, Peterhouse, Cambridge and Magdalen College, Oxford. .

Worsthorne has since complained to the Press Complaints Commission.Glover's column on March 24 dealt with the surrounding furore.

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