Meeting Sly at the palace

During the evening I had the rare opportunity of a face to face meeting with Sly Bailey, chief executive of Trinity Mirror - one of Britain's biggest companies and owner of the Advertiser.

But it wasn’t long before the in-demand Ms Bailey was introduced to a Lebanese man who exports HP sauce around the world and it was time for me to head back to the cheese on cocktail sticks.

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