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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 34) Winter 1998 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 34 Our Friends in the North West: The Owen Oyston Affair Andrew Rosthorn The Oyston Affair appears to have been the longest and most expensive privately-funded political dirty tricks campaign in recent British history. The astonishing 15-year campaign waged against Owen Oyston by Michael Murrin, the owner of a fish and chip shop in the village of Longridge, Lancs, was backed by help and cash payments raised by two former government ministers and a millionaire friend of Margaret ...
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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 35) Summer 1998 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 35 The Oyston Affair continues: D909 and the friends of Margaret Thatcher Andrew Rosthorn The former deputy Labour leader of Preston has been given legal aid to sue the Inland Revenue, two chief constables, two former Tory government ministers, two millionaires and a former fish and chip shop owner, for conspiring to steal his tax records. Frank McGrath was swept out of power in a Labour Party purge after the town hall and the homes of councillors ...
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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 51) Summer 2006 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 51 Digging in the Oyston archive Andrew Rosthorn Tons of documents and tape recordings recovered from an old manor house in Lancashire reveal the true depths of corruption in English provincial life at the end of the twentieth century. Owen Oyston was the British Labour Party's biggest private financial contributor in the Thatcher years. The millionaire owner of radio stations and glossy magazines had bailed out both the left-wing News on Sunday newspaper and his beloved Blackpool Football Club but was ...
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