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Herald Rangers row: Editor says legal threat led to columnists' exit

on Jan 29, 2016 | 0 comments

By Tony Connelly

The Herald’s editor-in-chief Magnus Llewellin has offered his reasons for the controversial departures of two columnists over an article related to Rangers football club.

Sunday Herald columnist and former reporter for The Drum, Angela Haggerty, was sacked after showing her support for colleague and sports reporter, Graham Spiers, who departed following pressure for a column he wrote in which he questioned “the mettle” of the current Rangers board in tackling offensive chanting.

Llewellin (pictured) issued a statement to The Drum insisting that while one of the newspaper’s advertisers was on the board at Rangers this “was never an issue and Read full story ›

Source: The Drum