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     1        A.  No, but it is written on the top:  "Sid Nicholson
     2        please handle this PSP" (that is Paul Preston), so I would
     3        have most certainly done something about it.
     4
     5   Q.   You would have asked the solicitors to write a letter?
     6
     7   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Can you remember?
     8        A.  Probably.  I cannot remember, my Lord, but I do not
     9        think I would write myself.  I would get Barlows to write.
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    11   MR. MORRIS:  There is no letter enclosed in that file?
    12        A.  No.
    13
    14   Q.   You do not know if a letter was written or not?
    15        A.  I do not know, I cannot remember now.
    16
    17   MS. STEEL:  Tab 11, I will not ask you to look through the whole
    18        of it, but it is about Chrissie Hynde.  Action was taken
    19        action her; is that correct?
    20        A.  We certainly wrote to her.  I do not know if there was
         anything else in it than that.
    22
    23   Q.   Was that for libel or was that some kind of other ----
    24        A.  No.  I think this was when she is alleged to have
    25        encouraged people to go out and bomb McDonald's or
    26        something to that effect. I cannot remember the details
    27        now.
    28
    29   Q.   You do not recollect that being an action for libel?
    30        A.  I do not think we started an action for libel against
    31        her.
    32
    33   Q.   A letter about libel?
    34        A.  It might have been a letter, I do not know, I cannot
    35        remember.  We certainly wrote to her.
    36
    37   Q.   But you do not remember whether it was about incitement or
    38        whether it was about alleged libel?
    39        A.  No, I cannot remember.
    40
    Q.   Spitting Image, this in tab 12?
    42        A.  Yes?
    43
    44   Q.   The letter from Barlow Lyde & Gilbert to Spitting Image on
    45        20th July 1989?
    46        A.  I cannot remember this one.
    47
    48   Q.   You do not remember it at all?
    49        A.  No.
    50 
    51   Q.   It says: 
    52 
    53        "On Sunday, 2nd July Spitting Image closed with the song
    54        sung by a Louis Armstrong puppet.  The song contains the
    55        following passage: 'The smell of burnt out forests cut down
    56        so easily to further meat production for Mcburgers
    57        industry', and it says the rest of the song and back
    58        projections which appeared on the screen visibly displayed
    59        many ecological environmental and human disasters."
    60