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Top attractions in Rome
Rome: Shuttle Bus Transfer to or from Ciampino Airport
Rome: Street Food Tour with Local Guide
Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel Skip-the-Ticket-Line Entry
Colosseum, Palatine & Forum with Skip-The-Ticket-Line & Host
Rome: Borghese Gallery Ticket with Escorted Entrance
Rome: 35-Minute Pantheon Audio Guide Tour
Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel Tour
Rome: Trevi Fountain Underground Experience
Ancient Rome and Colosseum Small Group 3-Hour Walking Tour
Rome: Guided Tour of the Catacombs of St. Callixtus
Roma Pass: 48 or 72-Hour City Card
Top sights in Rome
The 10 Things You Need to Do In Rome
So, the Eternal City is on your bucket list? Prepare to mix and match 2500+ years of history and discover your own version of Rome. You could fall in love with this city without ever seeing a museum -- but here are some of the more notable sights.
Vatican City
Vatican City is the world's smallest independent international state, a walled-off enclave within Rome. It's home to 842 people, the Sistine Chapel, and St Peter's Basilica.
Vatican Museums
Some of the world's most important relics -- the Sistine Chapel, for example -- are located inside the Vatican Museum. A guided tour here is worth every penny.
Sistine Chapel
Located inside the Apostolic Chapel, within the residence of the Pope, Michelangelo's ceiling fresco in the Sistine Chapel is a sight to see. Also, spend time studying The Last Judgement on the altar wall.
Roman Forum
This is where to go when you want to see Roman ruins. The Roman forum itself was once a marketplace or plaza, and is surrounded by the remnants of ancient government buildings.
Tour this famous amphitheater and reflect on the incredible architecture from 72 AD. The Colosseum is more impressive than any football stadium you've ever seen, AND it's 2000 years old.
Palatine Hill
It's thought that Palatine Hill is where Rome began. Excavations show that people have lived there since 1000 BC, and the ruins are steeped in mythology.
St Peter's Basilica
This tourist attraction is also the center of the Catholic world. The stunning St Peter's Basilica was built on the site where Peter, the apostle and first pope, was buried.
Raphael Rooms
Raphael's 16th century frescoes line the walls of the Palace of the Vatican's four public reception rooms, also called Raphael Rooms.
Galleria Borghese
Known to be one of the best museums in Rome, the Galleria Borghese is a 17th century villa is located in the sprawling Borghese park. You'll see antiquities, Renaissance art, and early Baroque pieces.
Trevi Fountain
Rome's world-famous Trevi Fountain depicts the mythological Neptune, backed by two Tritons. A fun place to grab a gelato, throw a coin in the fountain, and people-watch.
Planning Your Rome Visit
How long should you stay in Rome?
We can promise you won't get bored! You could manage to hit a lot of attractions in 4-5 days, or you could stay for months. Rome is incredibly walkable -- meaning it's easy to get a sense of the city just by exploring the neighborhood where you decide to stay. You'll quite quickly discover hidden-gem Italian restaurants or accidentally stumble upon Roman ruins.
How much money do you bring?
The big attractions charge you an entrance fee. Colosseum tickets start at 10€ to tour the inside. You can plan on seeing a lot of the ruins and churches from the outside for free, and you will find delicious Italian food for reasonable prices. One very cool free activity: the Casa del Cinema at Villa Borghese. The city of Rome subsidizes the outdoor film screenings here. Buy some wine and pizza, sit on the grass, and take in a free movie.
Where is the good shopping?
This completely depends on your budget and style. You'll probably walk down Via Connotti on your way to the Spanish Steps. That's where to go if you're looking for the great designer houses of Italy, like Prada and Gucci. Alternatively, check out the Mercato Monti in the neighborhood near the Colosseum. It's open daily for your fashion and trinket flea market fix.
One more thing to know about how old Rome is...
Roman tradition suggests the city was founded in 753 BC, and archaeologists suggest that inhabitants were settled there even earlier!
Good to know
- Language
- Italian
- Currency
- Euro (€)
- Time Zone
- Country Code
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- Best time to visit
- Rome is in southern Italy, so winter weather is mild. One tip: keep major Catholic holidays in mind. It may mean things are closed; more likely, it will mean huge crowds. Whether or not you want to see Easter at the Vatican, it will help your hotel (or flight) plans if you know in advance.
Things to Do in Rome
Top Attractions in Rome
Cities in Italy
Other Sightseeing Options in Rome
Want to discover all there is to do in Rome? Click here for a full list.
What people are saying about Rome
Our tour guide Dennis was an absolute delight. This is my first time in Rome and I'm a solo traveller so I really wanted to do this tour and it was incredible. It took around 4 hours and it's the quickest 4 hours ever, I've learned so much and felt so comfortable around Dennis who was extremely knowledgable and answered any and all questions thrown at him. I recommend this tour to anybody, it was worth every penny - you see and learn so much and it was really nice to gain some local knowledge from Dennis to use for the remainder of my trip!
Excellent guide (Yuri). 3 hours just about right. Not sure that leaving the best until last (The Sistine Chapel) is the best way to do the tour, by that time, with feet aching and needing a rest I just didn't absorb the magnitude of what I was seeing. Awesome artwork but by that time I just wanted a McDonald's!
Yuri our tour guide was great! Our tour was in english and he was super informative and answered all our questions and gave us an amazing 3-hour tour of the Vatican-City plus museums! Would definitely recommend this tour!
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Zachery Bir, on his Urbanape blog, explains how he used an iPhone 4 with the new Personal Hotspot feature in iOS 4.3 to add GPS to his Wi-Fi-only iPad. A tweet from Bir earlier in the day caused some skepticism when he posted:
From a technological standpoint, I must admit I was a bit skeptical as well. When deciding on which iPad 2 to get, I debated many of the same pros and cons as other customers wondering if the $130 upgrade to enable 3G on an iPad was worth the money.
Ultimately, I decided to put the extra money toward more storage and I settled on a black, 32Gb, Wi-Fi-only iPad 2. Upon seeing a post from Daring Fireball's John Gruber about Bir's findings, I feel as though my decision may well be completely justified.
Using an iPhone 4 and the Personal Hotspot feature, Bir reported, it seemed as though his iPad was able to maintain an uninterrupted GPS connection when traveling. Of course, this could be triangulating location awareness capabilities, but it doesn't seem likely that technology would be able to keep up with a moving vehicle uninterrupted.
For the time being, connecting a Wi-Fi-only iPad (Bir's was a first-generation iPad) to an iPhone 4's Personal Hotspot seems to add a GPS or GPS-like capability.
The true test, as noted in the comments on Bir's post, may be to drive where no other Wi-Fi signals are available and see if the location adjustments hold true. One commenter claims to have done so with negative results.
More evidence that this could be a working solution can be found in a TabletMonsters.com post.
In any case, when deciding whether or not to get an iPad with 3G, having an iPhone 4 with iOS 4.3 on hand can certainly be a deciding factor in your decision, thanks to the Personal Hotspot feature.
What was your deciding factor in choosing a 3G-enabled iPad or not? Let me know in the comments!


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Seymours Biscuits began in 2006 on the family farm kitchen table and today operates from its purpose built bakery in Bandon, West Cork. We hand-cut each biscuit made from as much locally sourced ingredients, producing a range of sweet and savoury biscuits for the Irish market as well as to export customers. The use of fresh Irish creamery butter gives our biscuits their most distinctive flavour, ideal as an accompaniment to tea and coffee.
From the beginning, we have worked with local SuperValu stores in West Cork. As a small bakery, we are gradually increasing retail availability as we grow organically. Being part of SuperValu's Food Academy makes it possible for us to progress with the introduction of new varieties such as our innovative Dark Chocolate & Raspberry Biscuit Bites. The support and networking within the Food Academy programme has been invaluable and gives small food producers market reach in the formative years of their development.
Seymours Biscuits is very much a community business from the sourcing of ingredients and materials locally to offering employment and sponsorship of local campaigns. We actively engage with nearby schools and host student visits regularly, encouraging the awareness of Irish food culture and the importance of environmental sustainability.


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- You can spend a lot of time researching the differences between blogging platforms but really, at this point it doesn't matter. Just pick one and get started. Otherwise you will emerge from the depths of the internet a year from now, still without a blog and still confused. It is the same with a name. Just pick one, don't over analyze. Or is that just me?
- Photographs are hard. All those effortless looking photos of a coffee mug, a flower, and plate of food, a book, a purse, whatever? Not so effortless.
- "If you build it they will come" is not necessarily true. You can create a blog and write some posts but there is no guarantee anyone will read it. It is a bit of a shock when you publish your first post and no one reads it. Plus, all the information about getting traffic for your blog assumes you have at least some traffic already. What if you are really completely new at this?
- Which brings me to social media. Apparently you need social media to get readers. I am going to have to figure that one out. I am a bit scared of social media. I know. Yes, I am from the dark ages.
- Also, you are supposed to connect with other bloggers in order to promote your blog. What?! But I started a blog because I am not good at connecting with people!
- Once you start a blog, no matter how new it is, your brain will start analyzing everything in order to determine if it can be turned into a blog post. And then you will lie in bed at night writing the post in your head, but you will be too lazy to get up and write it down. So when you get up in the morning it will be gone. The post you come up with will never be as good as the one you wrote in your head at one in the morning. Maybe a notebook on my bedside table would be a good idea.
- One of the best pieces of advice I read was to go back into the archives of your favorite blogs and read their first posts. It is very reassuring. They didn't magically appear as a polished blogger so don't compare yourself to the polished blogger.
- It is strangely satisfying to publish blog posts, even if you don't have many readers. Maybe it is because you are creating something? I am not sure, but I think it could get addictive.
- People are very opinionated. Don't believe every article you read about how to blog. For example, take everything I have just said with a grain of salt.
- Blogging is surprisingly fun. Go with it.
Things I wish I had known about starting a blog
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1. So true. I've been using Blogger since 2002, and I've seen so many bloggers hop from Blogger to Wordpress to random other things, and there seems to be no point to that, because they're all about the same.ReplyDelete
2. Yes. I tend to pick a background and stick with it forever. My <a href="http://hamlette.blogspot.com movies/writing/life blog has had the same background for 4 or 5 years now. I do switch up the header now and then, but the background is the same because choosing a new one is so blasted complicated!
3. Very true. For the first 8 or so years I was blogging, I had about 6 readers. One of them was my husband.
4. Not true. You only need social media to promote your blog if you want to win a popularity contest or make money with your blog. More is not always better.
5. Yes, this is true, if you want to have people commenting on your blog. You just joined the Classics Club, which is a good way to meet like-minded bloggers. Start reading reviews people have contributed and commenting on them, it's pretty simple.
6. Yeah, this totally happens all the time.
7. Yes! Good advice. My early posts are quite lame.
8. I agree.
9. Hee! Yes, very true.
10. Good plan!
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What We Believe
First Baptist Church of Linden ascribes to the Baptist Faith and Message 2000 which can be found at http://www.sbc.net/bfm2000/bfm2000.asp
We also participate in the Southern Baptist Convention and the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention.
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Come as you are; leave changed forever! At our Sunday morning worship service you'll find people of all ages and all types dressed in all sorts of ways worshiping God together. You're encouraged to wear whatever allows you to focus on worship. Our music is a blend of contemporary and classic worship styles so you're bound to connect with something. And we invite you to be more than a spectator; we invite you to participate. Lift your heart and voice in worship together with us. (If you need any assistance, just ask an usher. Childcare is available for those with small children.)


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Sony and Kobo have entered into an arrangement that will result in Sony's e-reading customers in Canada and the U.S. moving over to the Kobo platform.
Effective late March, the Sony Reader Store will close and its users will gain access to Kobo's eBookstore. New Sony Readers and Xperia devices will come loaded with the Kobo app.
In the first press release issued by new Kobo CEO Takahito Aiki, he said, "With a shared philosophy to deliver the best reading experience across platforms and with the best content available, Kobo and Sony will reach more people than ever before. Together, millions of customers across the U.S. and Canada will find their next great read at their fingertips "" any time, any place, and on any device."
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When friends needed someone to house / pet sit we jumped at the chance. Firstly we could get away for a while and secondly we could explore a part of Scotland we had never been to before. The Ardnamurchan Peninsula is quite easy to get to but still manages to hold onto it's remoteness and wildness. There are stunning beaches, stretches of remote moorland, Ancient Oak Woodlands which have a mystery all of their own and mountains all around. It was a truly beautiful and magical place and one we will definitely be returning to.
We drove up from Cumbria through snow, rain, hail and wind. Despite that, the familiar feeling of peace came over me as we entered Scotland and made our way up to the little Corran Ferry near Fort William. We are quite used to small ferries, being frequent users of the one across Lake Windermere, but the pretty lighthouse on the other side was something new reminding us that this was actually the sea not just a lake!
Apart from short stretches of 'normal' size roads the majority of the Peninsula has single track roads with frequent passing places. Not really an issue for us coming from Cumbria but could imagine that in Summer, with the influx of campervans, this could become interesting at times! Most of the locals waved and smiled at us as we let them pass or the other way around, it was a shock a week later to be visiting family in an over-busy Somerset town where no-one gave you any room and certainly didn't smile at you!
The weather was pretty wet and windy all the time we were there with a few splashes of sunshine but we managed to visit most of the places we wanted to go, drove down most of the long winding roads around the Peninsula exploring and met some lovely, lovely people. We visited a community Re-use store (twice in fact!) went to a community lunch at a local hall with the most amazing meringues, chatted to a friendly Father at a wildlife hide and even fixed a pricing clicker machine thingy in a community shop! We felt welcomed and fell a little bit in love with the place and the people.
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Today we finish Sean's recap of spots from his tour of the Great Divide Route. -Kid
Brett and I have finished our 2752-mile journey from Banff, Canada to Antelope Wells, New Mexico. Even though I've stopped pedaling, I still feel like I'm taking the trip in fully. I'm constantly playing out different days in my head or looking at maps to figure out in more detail where I have been. I thought I would share some of my favorite "spots" during the trip.
Wish I Could Do It Again Right Now Spot: Every once in a while the place you see in pictures actually looks the same in person as you thought it would.
The beginning of the Tour Divide (or end for some) is absolutely gorgeous. The Canadian Rockies from Banff down to Elkford are huge to say the least. A picture taking opportunity exists every 10 feet. You could spend days or weeks here just taking it all in and trying to convince yourself what you are seeing actually does exist.
The trail is quite fun through here too. It's a mix of dirt, gravel, jeep road, and singletrack through thick Canadian forests below snowcapped peaks. You also get to skirt quite a few glacial run-off lakes which bring a beautiful blue to the water.
Every mile left me in disbelief about how amazing this area is. I'm so thankful there are areas like these that remain mostly untouched and protected. The trails here are so lush, and the vegetation so thick, that it shows little wear or use from others.
It left you feeling like you were the first person to ride certain sections for years. This was a really cool feeling! I can't think of a more amazing way to kick off our tour and I would love to ride it again and explore more of the area.
The Spot I Enjoyed The Least: When leaving Cuba, New Mexico, Brett and I were faced with a detour. Our planned route using ten miles of Highway 550 was shutdown because of some major car accident. We reviewed the map and found what looked like a parallel ranch road that would take us to our route off of 550.
We headed down State Route 197 and took a left on our dirt road. It looked promising. After about half a mile it split. We reviewed both routes and took a right. We followed this for another mile with a positive mindset. Then slowly things began to change. The road began to narrow and was less worn in, then the brush kept creeping in, finally it became more of a streambed. This curved into a canyon that looked like it had no exit, and sure enough, it didn't. We found ourselves on cow path that ran out.
We reviewed our maps and GPS units. Both of us still felt good about our route and our road had to be right over there.
We shouldered our bikes and climbed out of the canyon. We kept climbing higher and higher in soft sand skirting sagebrush. We saw no sign of the road. We continued to hike to where it should be and felt more and more desperate for this road. The sagebrush was incredibly thick here forcing us to shoulder our bikes. Even with my bike on my shoulder it was hard to find a path through the brush and the limbs kept clawing at my legs and arms. My bike kept constantly getting caught in the branches. We should have been right on top of this road but we guessed that it had finally been overgrown. We discussed what we should do and decided we would continue on. We ended up hiking about 0.7 miles through nasty, thick sagebrush before finding some unknown ranch road.
I vowed at that point never to go off route again for the rest of the trip.
Favorite Food Spot: Brush Mountain Lodge. If you ever do the Tour Divide make sure you stop at the Brush Mountain Lodge,
14 miles south of Slater, Colorado, Kirstein made us the best dinner and breakfast I had on the entire trip. She actually knew we were coming before we got there.
After the Tour Divide Race she will watch the general Divide Spot Tracker page to see when she might be expecting people. We called before we came but she already knew we were coming and began preparing dinner.
We arrived late, around 9:30 PM that night, but Kirstein was in great spirits and made a huge serving of homemade spaghetti for us. She actually made the sauce when we got there! We also had fresh fruit on arrival and six pieces of garlic toast each.
The next morning she made scrambled eggs, bacon and sausage (DOUBLE MEAT!), toast, fruit, and coffee cake! It was amazing!
On the Tour Divide, it's stops like these that can completely make your tour. Thanks Kirstein!
I'll close this with one last image from the trip. It was a moment in time that is now a memory in my mind...and an inspiration to create more. Get out there and get it done!
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I was born and raised in the hills of Tennessee. I decided in high school I wanted to design the best bikes and parts possible; I've been following my dream ever since. I love about every possible mode of cycling, mountain biking is the most fun, but if I'm on two wheels I'm happy.
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Government condemns 'shocking' Winterbourne View abuse
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Abuse filmed by the BBC at a Bristol residential hospital has been condemned as "shocking" by the government.
It comes after police arrested and later bailed four people over the treatment of patients with learning difficulties at Winterbourne View.
Care Services Minister Paul Burstow said he was determined to strengthen safeguards for vulnerable adults.
The care watchdog said there was an "unforgivable error of judgement" in not investigating earlier abuse claims.
During five weeks spent filming undercover, BBC Panorama's reporter captured footage of some of the hospital's most vulnerable patients being repeatedly pinned down, slapped, dragged into showers while fully clothed, taunted and teased.
NHS South West said it had been "appalled" by the issues raised.
The hospital's owners, Castlebeck, have apologised and suspended 13 employees.
Avon and Somerset police confirmed three men - aged 42, 30 and 25 - and a 24-year-old woman were arrested as part of their investigation into the hospital.
Mr Burstow said: "The abuse of people with learning disabilities at Winterbourne View uncovered by Panorama is shocking. There can be no place for such inhumanity in care services.
"There have been failures of inspection and adult protection which have exposed people to appalling abuse.
"I am determined to strengthen the system of safeguarding to protect vulnerable adults from abuse."
Mr Burstow said he had already ordered a thorough examination of the roles of both government regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), and the local authorities.
CQC chairman Dame Jo Williams admitted the failure to follow up the reports of a whistleblower - a senior nurse at the home - had been an "unforgivable error of judgement".
She said the CQC was conducting a "root-and-branch review" to find out why that had happened.
Dame Jo, who said she had no plans to resign, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: "I am absolutely determined that we must do better."
She said the whistleblower had apparently contacted the CQC two or three times: "Once should have been enough. We have to listen to the people who are brave enough to raise their concerns."
She said each CQC inspector had a caseload of about 50 homes but she said it was too early to say if their heavy workload was to blame.
NHS South West said it was "appalled" by the issues raised surrounding the care home.
In a statement, it said: "We always expect safe, high-quality care from providers of services and the abuse of vulnerable patients is totally unacceptable."
Warnings ignored
The programme decided to film secretly after being approached by former senior nurse Terry Bryan, who was deeply concerned about the behaviour of some of the support workers at the home.
"I have seen a lot over 35 years but this I have never seen anything like this. It is the worst I have seen," he told the programme.
Mr Bryan reported his concerns to both management at Winterbourne View and to the CQC, but his complaint was not taken up.
The CQC said it was alerted to the allegations on 12 May 2011 by Panorama reporter Paul Kenyon and carried out unannounced inspections on 17, 18 and 24 May.
There is currently a team from the local mental health primary care trust at Winterbourne View and the CQC is making regular informal visits.
The CQC had also written to Mr Burstow proposing the launch of a programme of risk-based and random unannounced inspections of a sample of the 150 hospitals providing care for people with learning disabilities, a move which the minister backed.
Patients moved
Castlebeck has launched an internal investigation into their whistle-blower procedures and are reviewing the records of all 580 patients in 56 facilities.
Winterbourne View can accommodate 24 patients and is taxpayer-funded, charging the state an average of £3,500 per patient per week.
NHS South West said: "Following initial checks, and a subsequent inspection by the CQC it has been agreed that patients should move to alternative facilities at the earliest opportunity."
It said: "Primary care trusts in the South West which commissioned placements at the unit have carried out an urgent review of the processes used to commission and review privately provided services. The outcome will be fed into the wider multi-agency safeguarding review."
The Independent Safeguarding Authority, which maintains a list of people barred from working with vulnerable people, also expressed its shock at the footage.
ISA chairman Sir Roger Singleton said: "We would like to take this opportunity to remind employers that in cases of this nature, they are under a legal duty to refer the person to the ISA, so that we can consider whether they should be barred from working or volunteering with vulnerable adults and/or children."
Panorama's Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed was broadcast on BBC One on Tuesday 31 May at 2100 BST and is available to view in the UK on the BBC iPlayer.


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Wednesday, 24 January, 2001, 16:19 GMT
The power behind the headlines?
Alastair Campbell is said to have been a key figure in events that led to Peter Mandelson's second resignation. Once again the prime minister's press secretary has been cast in the spotlight.
Alastair Campbell could justifiably claim to have been the power behind the headlines of the Blair government.
As Tony Blair's official spokesman he has been in charge of the presentation of a government which, perhaps more than any of its predecessors, has been concerned with image.
At times that image has taken a battering - the latest example being events leading up to Peter Mandelson's resignation.
On Wednesday morning he all but publicly accused Mr Mandelson of misleading him, telling reporters: "One of the problems there has been is actually establishing ourselves all the various aspects of this."
In the past, disgruntled Labour backbenchers have described Mr Campbell as the second most powerful man in Britain.
Despite remaining in the prime minister's shadow, and hardly ever speaking on television, the controversy that surrounds Mr Campbell has made him something of a household name.
Plain speaking
His reputation for blunt speaking - which some claim veers into "bully boy" tactics - has won him few friends among the media.
But that has never seemed to bother Mr Campbell, who fiercely believes that a firm hand is needed to ensure the government's message gets through to the people.
His co-operation with BBC film maker Michael Cockerell, whose documentary last year recorded for the first time the unseen lobby briefings to political correspondents, raised many eyebrows.
For although the film revealed nothing to risk Mr Campbell's career, it did show just how seriously the government takes its image as portrayed by the media.
In the programme, Mr Campbell explained the decision to step back from day-to-day media briefings, which he and the prime minister took last year.
Out of combat
"We had, and I particularly had, got myself into a situation where combat was the only language that was being spoken, which is not necessarily terribly sensible either way," he said.
It is a comment which hints at the apparently aggressive nature of the briefings.
In part this is rooted in allegations that he has briefed against ministers. It is widely rumoured he was the source of comments designed to discredit the Chancellor, Gordon Brown. He is said to have called Mr Brown "psychologically flawed".
Mr Campbell has consistently denied making the comment.
If the members of the media regard him with suspicion, they know at least where he is coming from.
Before going to work for Mr Blair in 1994, he had established himself as a hard-nosed hack. The son of a Midlands vet, a fresh-faced Alastair Campbell launched his career in journalism as a trainee reporter at the Daily Mirror in 1983.
He later blamed the low point on alcohol and he has not touched a drop since.
Campbell is said to have come out of the experience less brash, more disciplined and even more driven in his career ambitions.
Fifteen years later, Campbell seems to be every bit as determined to help the Labour Party battle for the next general election.
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