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It's not like the Financial Times to come out with a howler, but we reckon there's a sub-editor in Southwark whose life wasn't worth living for at least a day in September. The pink 'un dutifully reported on its front page: "PeopleSoft bid for Oracle set to get EU go-ahead". Good story but completely the wrong way round: Oracle is bidding for PeopleSoft, of course, as the article itself made clear.

The Times made a highly ironic gaff when it recently said that barrister-and-PM-wife Cherie Booth was a founding member of the Matrix Churchill chambers. Uh, oh. That should be Matrix Chambers. Matrix Churchill was the company at the ...

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