"Steve Haywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > I cut his post entirely in line with how I normally cut posts and because > we > are encouraged to do it. However I am more than happy to reproduce the > omitted paragraph to which I think you may be referring. > > Adrian wrote: 'Around that time, I announced this several times at BW > national user > meetings, and IIRC also on this ng and/or URW (but I no longer have > copies of those postings).' > > Now he may have announced it a BW user meetings, but I personally have no > recollection of him ever having announced it on this group, though I stand > to be corrected on this. As far as I am concerned until this morning I > didn't have confirmation of the rumours I'd been consistently hearing > about > this matter and which surfaced again at a meeting I attended recently. > > I am still left without an answer to my question as to whether the editors > of the magazines for which he was writing knew he had a financial interest > in this issue at the time they published his pieces. As far as I know, his > pieces did not declare that interest, not was it made clear at any stage > that I was hearing the views of someone who had financial stake in the > outcome of an issue. > > But again, I am willing to accept that I am wrong on this. I can only say > again that until this morning I did not know that Adrian had a financial > interest in the moorings auctions issue for which he has campaigned long > and > hard. > > Did others know? Perhaps they could tell me how they knew? > I have known for a while (since about the time BW started their fiasco) that Adrian was unsuccessful in his tender to BW for the moorings auction. Not sure if it was on here or elsewhere. Oh and by the way note the word unsuccessful that means in my book that he didn't get the job therefore has no financial interest in the BW mooring tenders. He may believe that auctions are the way to go as I do, but he is not involved with the BW tender process. But then when has a journalist let the truth get in the way of a good story. Julian
