This 9 June 2015 email chain records Daily Mirror journalist Aidan McGurran asking Michael Leidig for his view after BuzzFeed contacted the Mirror’s corporate communications team about an old story published on the Mirror site in December 2013, headed “Drunk Santa and helper in hospital facing drink drive charges after falling out of horse-drawn sleigh.” McGurran says he is “a bit bemused” that BuzzFeed was “going after you again on a historic story.” Leidig replies that the item was from 2013, had been well covered at the time, and says he had only just learned, after BuzzFeed’s query, that there had been a Press Complaints Commission complaint. He explains that the story had been supplied by a freelancer who was no longer a contributor, that the freelancer stood by it, but that one person quoted denied making the attributed comments and the PCC accepted that. The forwarded BuzzFeed query, from Alan White, asks whether the Mirror was aware that two people quoted denied saying the words attributed to them, whether “Santa” and his wife had been found not to be drunk, whether a successful PCC complaint had been made against MailOnline and HuffPost over the story, and whether the Mirror would issue corrections. The document is significant because it shows BuzzFeed continuing, after publication of its CEN article, to pursue CEN-linked material through CEN’s publishing partners, including historic stories that were more than a year old. In the wider evidence chain, it helps document the post-publication pressure campaign around CEN content, as BuzzFeed sought further material from clients and rival publishers rather than simply relying on the published article. It is also useful because Leidig’s response distinguishes between a disputed freelancer-supplied story, a later PCC clarification concerning attributed quotes, and any wider allegation that CEN itself had knowingly fabricated material.