Independent Apologizes to Evening Standard Editor, Husband

Meanwhile, the Independent paid damages to the Evening Standard’s editor Veronica Wadley and her husband, writer Tom Bower (author of that biography of Conrad Black, Conrad and Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge), for hinting that the Wadley-Bower relationship raised “similar issues” as those in the Black marriage, including making the statement that the Evening Standard paid Mr. Bower’s expenses while he covered the Conrad Black trial, recently concluded in Chicago. The Independent apologized for the allegations twenty-four hours later. Read more here.