Then she makes the startling admission that this May's elections could mark the start of a major come-back for Labour in local government.

It was a startling admission from the chief executive, committed as he was on paper to defend the Bill of Rights.

For a man with 4,188 of them, it was a startling admission.

He said the Mets gave up, a startling admission that teammates initially disagreed with.

This was a startling admission for a Japanese officer to make to a prisoner during wartime."

But Torre made a startling admission Friday: that the team was not playing hard.

And the records include some startling admissions of indifference or defeatism by workers.

"Some of the others who came here with you have been contacted by subversives," she said in another, even more startling admission.

Longstanding suspicions about steroids burst into headlines after startling admissions by two former players.

Such a startling admission rather staggered Cardona, which was exactly what Monak wanted.