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150,000 lost UK police records looking more like 400,000 as Home Office continues to blame 'human error'

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Silver lining

Can't help but think what a gift this could be for all those pesky Freedom of Information requests....

Sir Humphrey Appleby:

Well, this is what we normally do in circumstnces like these.

James Hacker:

This file contains the complete set of papers, except for a number of secret documents, a few others which are part of still active files, some correspondence lost in the floods of 1967...

James Hacker:

Was 1967 a particularly bad winter?

Sir Humphrey Appleby:

No, a marvellous winter. We lost no end of embarrassing files.

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