William Hill shenanigans

I must say this William Hill situation really has thrown up some quite bizarre behaviour by "people close to the situation".

I understand that some "people close to the situation" (you know who you are) had been claiming my scoop from a couple of weeks ago in The Sunday Times about Rank and 888 holding merger talks ahead of making a £3 billion bid for William Hill wasn't a true "scoop" because we didn't get the story "quite right"...