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3 unusual facts about Press Complaints Commission


Liam Lawlor

The controversial nature of the coverage led to calls for a body to regulate and oversee standards in the Irish press similar to the Press Complaints Commission in the UK.

Press Council

Press Council (UK), a British voluntary press organisation that was succeeded by the Press Complaints Commission in 1990

Sunday World

On 1 November 2009, Northern Editor Jim McDowell attracted complaints to the Press Complaints Commission after the paper published on the front page the photograph of a man hanging from a bridge, having killed himself under the headline "Halloween Horror".


Darius J. Pearce

Following the Jersey Evening Post coverage of the idea of the Jersey Conservative Party, Pearce submitted a complaint to the Press Complaints Commission citing eighteen significant inaccuracies or misleading statements.

Louis Blom-Cooper

Blom-Cooper is well known for his regulatory work, particularly as Chair of the Press Council (UK) now the Press Complaints Commission and later as the founding chair of the premium rate telephony regulator, ICSTIS now PhonepayPlus.

Lucy Johnston

An article by Johnston in the Sunday Express that was critical of the cervical cancer vaccine, Cervarix, was the subject of a complaint to the Press Complaints Commission in 2009.

Rosebery School for Girls

Peta Buscombe, Baroness Buscombe, Chairman of the Press Complaints Commission since April 2009 and previously Chief Executive of the Advertising Association from 2007-9


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