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| | Guardian | Wadley lashes Livingstone over 'best friend' Desmond |
 | | Veronica Wadley, editor of the London Evening Standard, has reignited a long-running feud with the London mayor in an extraordinary attack on Ken Livingstone and his "new best friend", rival newspaper publisher Richard Desmond. |
 | | Ms Wadley, who rarely comments publicly, accuses the mayor of wasting money on the Londoner, a taxpayer-funded monthly publication printed by Mr Desmond, which she calls "Ken's Pravda". |
 | | In a 2,000 word statement read to Greater London Assembly members, the mayor defended his role in a late-night incident at a drunken party, where the Standard accused him of manhandling his pregnant girlfriend and inadvertently causing a Standard employee to be knocked unconscious after a nasty fall. |
| www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5107968-103690,00.html (530 words) |
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