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| | The Observer | UK News | The auld enemies slog it out |
 | | Neil told friends that Jaspan, an award-winning former editor of the Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday, which he revamped and boosted circulation, and the Observer, which proved ill-fated, 'would beat the bullet train to Edinburgh' to edit the Scotsman. |
 | | Jaspan, who has beaten Fleet Street's big guns to win a series of press awards, including editor of the year, said he would never work for Neil again because he was a 'meddling bloody nightmare'. |
 | | Alan Cochrane, Scottish editor of the Daily Telegraph, said Jaspan appeared to have a pathological hatred for Neil, who took charge of the 185-year-old group in 1996 and transformed its agenda from broadly liberal, literary, cultured, pro-European and pro-business to right-wing and hostile to Europe and devolution. |
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