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Feb 26, 2011
After John Le Carré, Oxford is blessed by L Ron Hubbard — The Telegraph (UK)
More: oxfordstudent.com, cherwell.org
Type: Press
Author(s): Tim Walker
Source: The Telegraph (UK)
After John Le Carré, Oxford is blessed by L Ron Hubbard L Ron Hubbard has left Oxford University with something of a quandary after bequeathing his collected works to the Union. [photo of L.Ron Hubbard] By Tim Walker 6:30AM GMT 26 Feb 2011 Daily Telegraph John le Carré’s decision to donate his literary archive to Oxford University delighted the academic community this week because its value could not be disputed. There is, however, something of a question mark over the extent ...
Item contributed by: Sponge
May 20, 2010
Information on 'enemies of Scientology found' in Italian police raid — The Telegraph (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Nick Squires
Source: The Telegraph (UK)
During a nine-hour search of the offices, Carabinieri officers are said to have discovered a cache of files hidden in a basement behind a locked door. The files allegedly contained personal information relating to judges, magistrates, journalists and police who had reportedly been deemed hostile to the US-based Church of Scientology, Italian media reported. Police seized computers as well as handwritten files, which are also said to contain details of former members of the religious movement. The raid was ordered by ...
Dec 9, 2009
Celebrity florist 'may have accidentally drowned daughter then killed herself' — The Telegraph (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Richard Savill
Source: The Telegraph (UK)
A celebrity florist may have accidentally drowned her nine-year-old disabled daughter as she tried to "heal" her in the bath, before killing herself, an inquest heard. Judith Richmond, 41, who was suffering from bi-polar disorder, also known as manic depression, had become obsessed with scientology, and a belief that metal was poisoning her daughter Millie and the whole planet. Mrs Richmond, who had provided flowers for the late Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, and the rock band Pink Floyd, believed her ...
Nov 29, 2009
How English Heritage snubbed the Scientologist founder L Ron Hubbard — Sunday Telegraph (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Jasper Copping
Source: Sunday Telegraph (UK)
L Ron Hubbard has joined the likes of Wallis Simpson, Eric Morecambe, Marc Bolan and Keith Moon after an application for a coveted blue plaque was rejected by English Heritage. The government agency, which runs the scheme, rejected the application by supporters of the founder of Scientology after its blue plaques panel decided that it was unconvinced about Mr Hubbard's "reputation". The decision has frustrated the Hubbard Foundation, which had nominated him. In an unusual move, a foundation representative went to ...
Item contributed by: Martin Poulter
Aug 29, 2008
Ashdown Park Hotel and Country Club: Hotel watch — The Telegraph (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Adriaane Pielou
Source: The Telegraph (UK)
In search of luxury in the countryside, Adriaane Pielou visits the baronial Ashdown Park Hotel deep in rural East Sussex. The location Unnerving if, like me, you arrive in the dark. Deep in rural East Sussex, 20 minutes by car from Glyndebourne opera house, the 106-room hotel is hidden behind trees on a unlit B-road running through Ashdown Forest. The next morning, though, all is sunny and serene. Sweeping acres of grounds (lake, croquet lawn, 18-hole golf course) surround the baronial ...
Aug 23, 2008
£5,000 to find council chief’s undefined self — The Telegraph (UK)
Type: Press
Source: The Telegraph (UK)
£5,000 to find council chief’s undefined self A council chief executive is attending a £5,000 self-awareness training course in Germany and Florida to learn to become “more likeable and able to like herself”. Last Updated: 12:12PM BST 23 Aug 2008 Dr Allison Fraser, who is in charge of Sandwell Council, signed up to attend the Avatar Professional Course. The Avatar website claims the course teaches people how to become “more real, authentic”, to “protect themselves against the abrasions of the world” ...
May 21, 2008
Church of Scientology: Boy faces court for 'cult not religion' placard — The Telegraph (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): John Bingham
Source: The Telegraph (UK)
A teenage boy is facing a possible criminal prosecution for holding a sign describing the Church of Scientology as a "cult", police said on Tuesday. The boy, who is described only as a minor, was taking part in a demonstration outside the church's central London headquarters on May 10 when City of London Police officers ordered him to remove the placard. It read: "Scientology is not a religion, it is a dangerous cult." When he refused, he was issued with a ...
Feb 5, 2008
Bad publicity 'helps Scientology recruitment' — The Telegraph (UK)
Feb 4, 2008
Hackers wage web war on Scientologists — The Telegraph (UK)
Jan 7, 2008
Tom Cruise 'Scientology second-in-command' — The Telegraph (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Tom Leonard
Source: The Telegraph (UK)
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Sep 9, 2007
Friends, thetans, countrymen — Daily Telegraph (UK)
May 14, 2007
BBC denies 'death threat' in Scientology row — The Telegraph (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Stephen Adams
Source: The Telegraph (UK)
The BBC has hit back at accusations that it orchestrated a demonstration against Scientologists during which a "terrorist death threat" was allegedly made. It comes as a bitter row develops between the Corporation and Scientologists over a highly critical Panorama documentary about the religion, in which a veteran reporter lost his temper and screamed for 30 seconds at a Church member. The BBC has seriously reprimanded John Sweeney for the outburst, which the journalist has admitted was "wrong and stupid". The ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Dec 10, 2006
Scientologists get £270,000 subsidy — The Telegraph (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Adam Lusher
Source: The Telegraph (UK)
The controversial Church of Scientology has been granted a subsidy of more than £270,000 a year in public money, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal. Scientology's lawyers used European rulings and Government equality regulations to force the City of London corporation to grant an 80 per cent rates discount for its new centre near St Paul's Cathedral. The "church", it is believed, is now pressing to pay nothing at all. The corporation confirmed that this discount was on the basis that Scientology ...
Mar 19, 1998
Church of Scientology probes Herald reporter - Investigation follows pattern of harassment — Boston Herald
Type: Press
Author(s): Jim MacLaughlin, Andrew Gully
Source: Boston Herald
The Church of Scientology, stung by a five-part series in the Boston Herald that raised questions about its practices, has hired a private investigator to delve into the Herald reporter's private life. The Rev. Heber Jentzsch, president of the Church of Scientology International, confirmed that the church's Los Angeles law firm hired the private investigative firm to look into the personal life of reporter Joseph Mallia, who wrote the series. "This investigation will have to look at what's riving this" coverage, ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jul 13, 1995
Victim in the grip of 'mind control' // I went mad for a week, claims ex-cult's member — Lancashire Evening Telegraph
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Lancashire Evening Telegraph
ITV'S The Big Story tonight goes undercover in the Church of Scientology. And as the programme was being prepared, the Lancashire Evening Telegraph spoke to a former East Lancashire man who spent two years with the cult. The organization is so sensitive to publicity that during the making of The Big Story, the offices of Carlton television were picketed by member of the Church. "There are about 10 of them outside," said press office Mr. Keith Nurse on Tuesday. "They were ...
Mar 15, 1995
Cult's hopes of improving its image takes a knock — Daily Telegraph (UK)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): John Steele
Source: Daily Telegraph (UK)
THE acquittal of Stephen Cooper is a major setback for the Church of Scientology in its efforts to dispel its image as a sinister and manipulative cult. The decision will go down in the demonology of the cult - or, in its own terminology, on the ever-lengthening list of anti-Scientology 'suppressive acts' - alongside a bench-mark case in the family division of the High Court in 1984. In that hearing Mr Justice Latey presided over a custody dispute between a father ...
Nov 14, 1971
Scientologists lose 'Mind Benders' case [exact date unknown]
More: link
Type: Press
MR Justice O'CONNOR dismissed two applications by the Church of Scientology yesterday for the editor of a provincial newspaper and the author of "The Mind Benders," a book on the cult, to be sent to prison for contempt of court. The judge said on the third day of the hearing that he would give his reasons today. In the applications, the Church of Scientology had sought to commit to prison Mr CYRIL VOSPER, the author, and Mr KEITH WHETSTONE, editor of ...
Aug 7, 1968
Church told to pay court costs — Daily Telegraph (UK)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Daily Telegraph (UK)
THE Church of Scientology of California was told by Mr. Justice Fisher in the High Court yesterday that it cannot continue libel actions against three newspapers unless it pays their costs incurred in preliminary proceedings which it has now abandoned. Costs are estimated at more than £500. Mr. Justice Fisher had earlier been told by Mr. Leon Brittan, counsel for the church, that it was no longer seeking injunctions sought at a previous hearing, restraining further publication of the alleged libels ...
Mar 20, 1966
One man Britain can do without / He is sending out spies to smear anybody who dares attack his strange cult — The People
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Derek Ive
Source: The People
HE IS SENDING OUT SPIES TO SMEAR ANYBODY WHO DARES ATTACK HIS STRANGE CULT [Photos / Caption: Mr. Hubbard . . . from him, dangerous words.] [Photos / Caption: Mr. Sharpe . . . from him, angry words.] BEHIND the elegant walls of a country mansion in Sussex, a nasty enterprise is being directed by the head of a strange American cult. It is an evil plan which will offend every fair-minded citizen in this country. The man is Lafayette Ron ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
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