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July 3, 2015

Nationals censured by IPSO over misleading court coverage, regionals cleared over reports of same story

By Dominic Ponsford

Three national newspapers have been censured by press regulator IPSO over inaccurate reports of a court case.

But two local newspapers which covered the same case were cleared of wrongdoing after they avoided commiting the same error.

Maddison Hawk complained over coverage in the Daily Mail, Metro.co.uk and Mirror.co.uk which were all based on news agency coverage of her court case.

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