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Dontcha just love the balanced and socially responsible articles in The Citizen? In the front page headline story today, they refer to mum-of-11 Heather Frost as 'jobless' and the new 6-bedroom council house that will house her family as a 'mansion'. What absolute shite! Who'd want to have to look after 11 children? It must be a full-time job in itself. Richer people pay others to look after their offspring, and some of them still end up as basket cases.

It's a shame that Heather even spoke to the reporter. She should have threatened legal action for harassment instead. TiG is overwhelmed by the usual outpouring of hatred and jealousy - 80 comments so far (and that's just the ones that haven't been deleted). Anyone would think that the article was about Rose West or someone like that.

[Joe K]

As 'jobs' go though, Kay, it's not the kind of career that will help to set the country back on its feet. Quite the reverse.

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It all depends on how well she is raising them. Unfortunately, she doesn't seem to be very smart; she's been shooting her mouth off to anyone and everyone, including The Sun, who have obviously had fun with this story, as their readers tend to be working class Tories.

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The behaviour of TiG is absolutely disgraceful. They have been baiting her all week. They have even covered the national media's coverage of the story.

Someone called Rob Stringer has started a petition to Tewkesbury Borough Council against having the new house built for Heather 'at tax-payers' expense'; it's already up to 270 signatures. It's interesting that the former Civil Service Club grounds in Estcourt Road, Gloucester were sold off to Redrow Homes for £10,000 in 2011; it included a sports field and can't have been worth only £10,000, but now it will be built on and no-one was 'outraged' about that sell-off.

Someone needs to tell Heather to get herself someone of Max Clifford's ilk to represent her interests. She could get damages from the media for the current witch-hunt.

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I think that TiG is now up to seven articles slagging off Heather Frost. Oh, what would we do without all this 'information'? I, for one, would like TiG to concentrate on real news. What about printing something sunstantive about the Cotswold Water Park scandal? It's been all over Private Eye, but hardly anything has appeared on TiG because Northcliffe Media is too scared of having to fight a defamation case. Pathetic - you can only lose a defamation case if you print falsehoods.

If Heather now doesn't want to move from Innsworth Lane to Tewkesbury because of all of the media attention, I have another suggestion: there is a large property in Park Road, Gloucester that is up for auction at the rugby ground on 6th March. It is predicted to fetch £130,000 - £140,000. It has eight rooms in addition to a kitchen, shower room and cellar. It could definitely be converted into a home for a large family. Severn Vale Housing could purchase it and turn it into a home for Heather and her family; they do cover the Gloucester area because they were going to develop an allotment site in Tredworth back in 2006, before that was declared illegal. The property is just across the road from Rikenel, and therefore close to Gloucester Park, which would be ideal for the children.

[Joe K]

What, you mean they could substantiate their income with a bit of mugging when they get older? I kid, I kid...

TiG really shouldn't worry about defamation. There's nothing to stop them asking the key individuals in the Water Park scandal questions, and reporting the answers they receive. Asking leading questions, not getting answers, and then publishing the questions anyway, would be more questionable, but my philosophy has always been that it doesn't hurt to ask (however much it may annoy some people)...

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Just when I thought that it couldn't get any worse...it does. I wasn't surprised that they had the same arguments on Any Questions, from the Guildhall, but I now see that Heather's father has been slagging her off to the media. What a dickhead!

[Joe K]

I wonder who gets paid what, for talking to TiG? It's almost like Jeremy Kyle online...

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The thing that I'm wondering is who Heather pissed off at TiG. Did she have an affair with an employee of Northcliffe Media and break his heart? What else could explain such a campaign of abuse against her by a media organisation?

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I just love today's Citizen:
On the front page, it says: "Sickening abuse towards mum-of-11, page 5". (It's actually page 3, but The Citizen don't bother about getting their facts straight, including giving her age as anything between 34 and 38). On page 3, there is a new article, repeating the bullying claims from last week, and adding one from The Sun, about the hire of a children's roundabout for a party in 2011. They somehow even make it sound bad that she'd accept second hand clothing for her children: damned if she does, damned if she doesn't.

The "sickening abuse" headline has got to be one of the most hypocritical by any newspaper -ever! Much of the "sickening abuse" has been on TiG, and fuelled by the mixture of muck-racking, rabble-rousing and lies that they have published over the last week.

On page 20, the story is dug up again, as part of a report on the Any Questions? programme. It's odd that the article says nothing about the fact that Jeanette Winterson defended Heather. Well done, Jeanette, but huge fail, Joe Lane.

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Heather's joblessness now pales to insignificance. Evidence has emerged that her children ran riot in Tewkesbury back in the early noughties. Why was she not prosecuted or evicted back then, I wonder? I also wonder if TiG knew about her history before starting the campaign of abuse.

It's certainly a story that is going to run and run. I suspect that there may well be other evidence of anti-social behaviour by her children that TiG is keeping back for a slow day.

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No new evidence has emerged, but TiG is still pushing the story, via something called Taboola.