Scots comedian Frankie Boyle complained today that he had been libelled when a tabloid newspaper described him as "racist".
Lawyers told the High Court in London that a Daily Mirror article which started with the words "Racist comedian Frankie Boyle" was defamatory. A barrister told a jury that the newspaper also defamed Boyle, from Glasgow, by saying he had been "forced to quit" the BBC show Mock The Week.
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