Media Wales / Reach plc (South Wales Echo, Western Mail)
Forensic assessment · v1.1.0 · updated 1 November 2026
Translation pending: the assessment text below is in English, the authoritative record.
- Response status
- No contact on file
- Last contact
- None on file
- Next date on file
- None on file
- Earlier version
- v1.0.0, published 21 October 2026 on the Legal Wiki
Since last assessment
14 October 2026 to 1 November 2026
Our reading: No new correspondence is on file since the last assessment. The earlier finding stands unchanged.
The assessment as last published
Carried over unchanged from v1.0.0 (21 October 2026). Links point inside this site.
Assessed 14 October 2026. Scope: newspaper publisher and archive functions only. Newspaper reports are evidence of what was reported, not automatic proof of every reported detail. Inclusion is not a finding of fault.
Documented appearances
| Date | Appearance | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 29–30 April 1988 | Reports of the first eviction attempt, including police presence. | GHF-E168; GHF-E090-N07 |
| 3 December 1988 | South Wales Echo, “History fight to save farm and demolition report”. | GHF-E172 |
| 6 December 1988 | Western Mail, “Farmer fails in final eviction hearing”. | Western Mail, 6 December 1988 |
| 20 March 1989 | South Wales Echo search extract. | GHF-E090-N15-14 |
| August–September 2026 | The family’s archive enquiry to a Reach plc contact about South Wales Echo coverage (1990) and related matters: an out-of-office reply on 20 August; a family follow-up on 2 September. | Family correspondence |
Current finding
As at 14 October 2026, the material reviewed does not establish wrongdoing by the publisher. The 2026 enquiry has had an out-of-office reply only; no substantive response is recorded. The 1988–89 articles are used for what they say was reported.
Next step
Ask Reach plc / Media Wales for the original page images, dates and photographers’ credits for the 1988 items, and whether any photograph archive survives. Acceptance: each article has a verified date and page reference, or a dated negative archive result.
Related
Press Archive — Newspaper Transcripts · Media Gallery · ITV Cymru Wales review
Created 14 October 2026. Prepared with AI assistance from the wiki’s existing records, on the family’s instruction. Corrections are welcome and will be dated here.
Change history is maintained on the Master Change Log; no separate page-local version footer is maintained.
Case file
This file is built for a future reparations claim. Facts are as the records show them; interpretation is labelled “our reading”. Items marked “not checked” have not been compared with the original record.
(a) Conduct timeline
0 dated interactions, oldest first; 0 automatic acknowledgements are left out. Quotations are verbatim from the institution’s email; where the reply’s substance was an attachment, the email subject is quoted instead.
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| Date | Direction | Reference | Type | Verbatim |
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(b) Inconsistencies and gaps
None found in the correspondence on file.
(c) Quarantined-name links
Records on the quarantine register (Kissed Frogs) that sit in, or came from, this institution’s holdings. None is treated as settled.
No quarantined-name record on the register is linked to this institution’s holdings.
(d) Duty and liability — our reading
Liability indicators (our reading): none
- Duty
- No general statutory duty to disclose; UK GDPR Art. 15 for personal data it holds; duties in contract, conveyancing practice or professional rules where it was a party, agent or adviser; once on notice of a possible claim, an expectation to preserve relevant documents.
- Indicators the duty was not met
- none found in the correspondence on file.
- Evidence still needed to confirm
- the institution’s retention schedule and disposal record for the series in question; the catalogue or file list it searched; any internal review or complaint outcome.
- Likely extent of exposure if confirmed
- Depends on its role in a transaction: where it was a party or adviser to a dealing in the land, exposure follows that role; otherwise none beyond data-protection duties.
(e) Evidence still needed
- View any deposited papers (company or estate records) at the archive that holds them. for paid visit list
Versions
| 1.1.0 | 2026-11-01 | Moved to the Forensic Assessments webapp; dated “Since last assessment” section added; response status re-read. |
| 1.0.0 | 2026-10-21 | As published on the Legal Wiki. |