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| | Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Paul Foot |
 | | Paul Foot, who has died aged 66, was everything that is best in our gnarled old trade, and he graced it for five decades with stories and investigations that tumble down the years. |
 | | It was the ritual vandalising of the poet's statue by hearty rowers that first awoke the young Foot's contempt for the rich and privileged, though his education at Shrewsbury school, and his high commissioner father Sir Hugh Foot (later Lord Caradon), meant he was uncomfortably close to both himself. |
 | | Foot's weekly column ran for almost 14 years, ending in spectacular style with him investigating the bloodletting of Mirror chief executive David Montgomery after Robert Maxwell's death and putting his report forward for publication. |
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