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On March 4, Great Yarmouth First successfully registered as a political party.
Great Yarmouth First was officially registered on 3 March 2026, not 4 March 2026.
Full reasoning
The Electoral Commission’s registration record for Great Yarmouth First lists the party’s date registered as 03/03/2026. That is the official registration date recorded by the UK elections regulator, so stating that registration happened on 4 March 2026 is one day late.
News reports on 4 March 2026 may have covered or announced the approval, but the regulator’s own register is the authoritative source for the actual registration date.
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- Electoral Commission registration summary: Great Yarmouth First
Registration summary ... Primary name Great Yarmouth First ... Status Authorised ... Date registered 03/03/2026.
The Cotswolds
The constituency Rupert Lowe contested in 1997 was officially named Cotswold, not The Cotswolds.
Full reasoning
UK Parliament’s official general election results database records Rupert Lowe’s 1997 candidacy in the constituency Cotswold. The official entry is titled “1997 General Election - Cotswold” and lists Lowe as the Referendum candidate there. So the article’s constituency name “The Cotswolds” is not the official constituency name used in the 1997 election record.
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- UK Parliament: 1997 General Election - Cotswold
1997 General Election - Cotswold ... Constituency Cotswold ... Lowe, Rupert Referendum 3,393.
as part of the News International phone hacking scandal.
Lowe’s payout was from Mirror Group Newspapers’ phone-hacking litigation, not the News International scandal.
Full reasoning
This sentence conflates two separate newspaper groups.
In February 2018, Rupert Lowe was among people who received damages and apologies from Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN). The Guardian’s court report says the judge heard details of settlements by Mirror Group Newspapers involving Rupert Lowe.
Reuters’ report on the same litigation explains that the 2011 scandal was primarily associated with News of the World, owned by Rupert Murdoch, and separately notes that phone hacking also emerged at the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People, all owned by MGN. So describing Lowe’s MGN settlement as being “part of the News International phone hacking scandal” is inaccurate: it was part of the Mirror Group/MGN phone-hacking litigation, not a News International payout.
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- Mirror Group admits bosses 'turned blind eye' to phone hacking
The judge also heard details of settlements against Mirror Group Newspapers by the actor Ralf Little and Rupert Lowe ... Both men received undisclosed damages payouts and apologies from MGN.
- Hugh Grant settles phone-hacking claim against Mirror newspapers
Most of the focus at the time was on the News of the World ... Later, it emerged that phone-hacking had also occurred at the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People, all owned by MGN.