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Media roundup: more Labour security mishaps

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One can't help but wonder whether the government presently operates with the jingly-jangly music of a 1920s slapstick film running on permanent loop in the background. Not only have we recently seen cases in which top-secret documents were left on a train, but now it transpires that Communities Secretary Hazel Blears has had her laptop stolen ... along with a hard-drive packed with lovely confidential information.

Here's what certain meeja outlets have to say:

- The BBC claims that 'officials' are being blamed

- The Spectator casts a beady eye over the embarrassment caused

- Blears may have breached the Official Secrets Act, reckons the Telegraph

- And The Herald has some rather unnerving revelations as to the actual contents of the laptop ...

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