Mon, May 9, 2011
The police interview the journalists following Heather's death. However, when Paddy tries to persuade them that Brian's murder has the same hallmarks as that of little Thomas Dempsie, whose father killed himself in prison and whose mother she interviewed using Heather's name, they are not interested. Paddy speaks to alcoholic veteran hack Dr. Pete, who is sure Dempsie never murdered his son. Then, with young reporter Terry she finds evidence to suggest that mobile grocery van driver Henry Naismith, a witness in the recent case and Dempsie's cell-mate is the culprit, a fact seemingly borne out when she speaks to Calum. Further investigations down this road lead to a dangerous encounter before she gets her wish to become a fully-fledged reporter.
Mon, Aug 29, 2011
In 1982 Patricia 'Paddy' Meehan, lowly Girl Friday at the Glasgow Daily Post has journalistic aspirations, despite her male colleagues' sexist remarks. When three-year-old Brian Wilcox is murdered the chief suspect is Callum, Paddy's cousin's ten- year -old son and when his name is published in the paper, his family - wrongly - blame Paddy. Unconvinced of Callum's guilt Paddy links the murder to that of another little boy, some years earlier, whose alleged killer has just hung himself in prison. Paddy interviews the man's widow, using the name of a colleague, Heather, who is later murdered.
Fri, Aug 9, 2013
McVie survives and, with Paddy, establishes that Thillingly was most likely murdered. They visit McDade to ask about his connection to the dead lawyers. He tells them that Vhari had evidence to expose government dirty tricks in accusing the NUM of fraud, though Maloney presents Devlin with supposed fraud by the union. He realizes that she is colluding with the government to discredit the NUM and boost newspaper sales. Soon afterwards he is beaten up but this incites him to rally the staff to defy Maloney. Paddy and McVie rescue Karen - to whom Vhari passed on her information - from her abductors, Lafferty and Neilson, the man Paddy saw at Vhari's house. They take her to the newspaper office where she reveals the government conspiracy. The News prints a front page exposing the government and police collusion and Maloney is forced to back off. However Paddy discovers that she is pregnant by married policeman Dan Burns, with whom she had been having an affair and who had given her information.