20. British journalism's greatest ever scoops: Minister bedded judge’s wife and daughters (News of the World, Stuart White, 1994)

Richard Wilson 12 October 2012

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Former government minister Alan Clark admitted to an affair

Former government minister Alan Clark didn’t do the scandal-hit John Major government any favours when the NoW revealed he had an affair not only with the wife of judge James Harkness but that he had also “bedded her two virgin daughters”.

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