Looking back as the Mirror Group Pensions scandal rears its ugly head once again

The Mirror group pension scandal, which rocked Fleet Street some 25 years ago, is back in the news.
I remember it well. I was present  as a Mirror Group executive when a late night meeting at the HQ of Mirror group lawyers Travers Smith and Braithwaite in London halted a proposed court action to recover £425m lent to a desperate Robert Maxwell to shore up the then troubled Mirror company.
The tycoon had died just over a month earlier when, alone on a cruise, he vanished from