Jack's back...

Dead reckoning

Deadline, the BBC's six-part Scottish press documentary based on former Herald editor Harry Reid's book, has begun in explosive fashion – and not just on-screen. It carried the story of how Jack Irvine, then of The Scottish Sun, replied to a two-page lawyer's letter that arrived by fax by scrawling "**** off, yours Jack" on it and faxing it back.

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