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Article: 'Offensive' text earns Agency chief a police ticking-off; No court action on Broomhead phone message EXCLUSIVE.(News)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- July 8, 2008
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Byline: BY DAVID BARTLETT Daily Post Staff
ONE of the most powerful and influential civil servants in the North West is to have his knuckles rapped by police over the alleged sending of offensive text messages.
Steven Broomhead, chief executive of the North West Development Agency, is to be spoken to by officers from Greater Manchester Police.
Mr Broomhead will face no charges nor a prosecution, but instead will be warned by officers that text messages he is alleged to have sent in late 2006 could be perceived as offensive.
In January, 2007, Mr Broomhead, who earns around pounds 180,000, was forced to issue an apology for forwarding a racist text message, and ...