The editor writes

Our story was based of similar reports in a number of national newspapers, including the Guardian, not just the Sun.

We are extremely grateful to you for pointing out the background to the story and we have now taken it down. This episode bears some similarities to an earlier correspondence prompted by an article for us by Dennis McShane. See here and here.

For more on the propaganda war, Brendan O'Neill wrote an excellent article about this for The First Post.

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