We had given him an olive branch and he'd broken it in two and beaten us round the head with it.

Bloody exciting ain't it? Bloody exciting.

as gripping as any piece of fiction.

If you go to a casino and play the numbers game, as they did, and you lose, you don't go back to the casino the next day and ask for your money back.

You have become the mouthpiece for a ruthless and bullying management which regards all employees as cattle.

Perhaps there was a plot; but I tell you unequivocally that we had no part of it, no knowledge of it."

Someone had to tell the Wapping story quickly, and there was no one better suited for the job than Linda Melvern. She was trained and moulded on newspapers before the Return of the Proprietors, and the consequent collapse of journalistic standards”.

an extraordinary canvass.....her material, deeply detailed, fully documented ...on how the company established the Wapping operation. Whatever the outcome of the dispute, it is unlikely that a better account will need to be written of it... Melvern’s story is gripping, highly dramatic... It is above all a reporters book, telling the tale...