Key players, I'm told, were the Telegraph's Lord Black who is the key fix-it man for the industry, Associated Newspapers' Peter Wright, who is the former editor of the Mail on Sunday, the editor of the Times John Witherow and the editor of the FT Lionel Barber.

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However, in his evaluation of the trials, Brigadier Monro was said to have complained that the women had only been able to pass because key tasks had been made easier or dropped, according to a leak of the report in the Daily Telegraph.

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