One of the things any reporter will tell you drives them wild is the unwanted press release.

That, generally speaking, is about 998 out of every 999 releases we receive.

Among the releases that have arrived on my desk in recent days have been "20-year-old Buckinghamshire rider tipped to make her mark in Rio in 2016", a piece about a sailing boat rescue off Sheerness, an exclusive that quagos cost £1 billion a year.....

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