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April 12, 2012updated 20 Sep 2012 9:09pm

The news agency, the airline and the confidential flight details of more than 60 celebs

By Press Gazette

Over the Bank Holiday weekend Press Gazette published details of emails which appeared to show that a Virgin Atlantic insider had leaked confidential flight details of more than 60 celebrities to news agency Big Pictures.

Since then the London-based paparazzi outfit has issued one legal letter and then maintained its silence. Virgin has launched its own inquiry and it has emerged that an employee has resigned.

 

Meanwhile, a claim from senior Met police officer John Yeates that Virgin leaked details of his air miles to the Mail on Sunday have been robustly denied by that paper.

Read Press Gazette reports below.

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