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It's 50 years since JFK died but the Establishment may never come clean on the details. It all reminds PADDY McGUFFIN of something

They say a week is a long time in politics - even the parochial kind - and also in the financial sector. Just ask the Reverend Paul Flowers.

Allegations of crack cocaine use, orgies, pornography ...

Flowers appears to have gone from being a jolly-faced middle-aged Methodist minister to West Yorkshire's answer to Scarface in the space of seven days.

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