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October 12, 2012updated 16 Oct 2012 2:55pm

17. British journalism’s greatest ever scoops: Frank Bough: I took drugs with vice girls (News of the World, Gerry Brown and Sandy Laming, 1988)

By Richard Wilson

The headline says it all.

The revelations that Bough had “snorted cocaine with prostitutes and drug pushers” were enough to effectively finish the TV career of the jumper-wearing host of Breakfast Time and Holiday.

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