Saturday 17 April 2010

Welcome back "Rebecca!"
Rebecca’ magazine to return on the Net
Apr 17 2010 by Martin Shipton, Western Mail

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2010/04/17/rebecca-magazine-to-return-on-the-net-91466-26260743/
ONE of the most celebrated names in Welsh journalism is set to return next week.

The magazine Rebecca, which ran from 1973 to 1982, will be relaunched on the internet.
Describing itself as “Britain's first investigative website”, Rebecca will combine web TV programmes with long investigative articles.

The first TV programme, about a Freemason who allegedly got away with abusing a young girl, is called “Brothers in the Shadows”. A two-minute trailer was posted on YouTube last night.

The editor of Rebecca is Paddy French, who was a current affairs producer with the ITV Wales programme Wales This Week until he left at the end of 2008. He said: “My career started with Rebecca, and now that I’m semi-retired I’d like to end it with the internet version. This time around Rebecca will try and forge something new – a blend of the best of both TV and print.”

The first edition also features an investigation into what Rebecca claims is the failure of the North Wales Child Abuse Tribunal to properly investigate the influence of Freemasonry.
There is also as an investigation into an anti-corruption detective who was allegedly hounded out of his job with a Welsh police force.

The original magazine’s reputation was made when it started a run of stories about corruption in local government which led to the creation of the magazine’s Corruption Supplement. In the mid-1970s 14 councillors and businessmen named in its pages were jailed for corruption.
Rebecca also carried out a four-year investigation into the business career of former Prime Minister James Callaghan. Callaghan was a Cardiff MP and Rebecca criticised his links with the Welsh millionaire businessman Sir Julian Hodge.

The internet version of Rebecca will cost £1.50. A trailer for Rebecca TV can be seen at http://www . youtube . com/user/rebecca television


We on this site will endeavour to highlight any misfeasance in public office and will share with you information of sinister dealings by the valley;s Masonic fraternity.
Afterall it was Paddy French and Bruce Kennedy that highlighted child abuse in our area that was covered up by former Chief Constable of Dyfed Powys Police Terry Grange and a Powys Circuit Judge.

1 comment:

  1. Nice one mate.
    I'd like to see this take off.
    ATB.
    Colin Peters

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