The Telegraph article looks pretty good compared to this one in the Mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1268794/Remember-ash-cloud-It-didnt-exist-says-new-evidence.html
The satellite image that they use as "proof" that there was no ash cloud is from the water vapour channel of Meteosat which only sees a relatively narrow vertical range and wouldn't pick up the ash anyway. Meteosat does have a channel that picks up ash, this channel showed the cloud.
What really dissapointed me about this story was that someone from the Mail phoned me and some of my workmates to ask about the ash cloud, trying to get us to say that the decision to ground the planes was "stupid". Instead, we spent quite a while explaining some plots from our lidars (linked to below) that clearly show the ash layer on the relevant dates. They ignored this.
http://data.cas.manchester.ac.uk/lidar/
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