
The Huddersfield Daily Examiner breached accuracy standards when it published a misleading headline in a court story about a scientist who admitted making explosive substances, the Independent Press Standards Organisation has found.
It ordered the newspaper to publish standalone corrections online and in print as it upheld a complaint by David Taylor that the newspaper had breached Clause 1 (accuracy) of the Editors’ Code of Practice with a front-page story headlined: “Boffin, 71, made bombs for hobby”, published on 22 November last year.
The report described a court hearing in which Taylor had pleaded guilty to two counts of making explosive substances.
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