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Reading the riot act?

Sunday’s needless collision between the two Red Bull drivers cost the team the constructors’ championship lead, a second successive one-two finish and Webber his third victory in a row.

World champion Jenson Button, now Hamilton’s team mate at new leaders McLaren, said the fallout could be even more destructive if not nipped in the bud.

“We are all competitive and sometimes you find it difficult to back down in certain situations but when you look at the data and look at the footage, someone’s always in the wrong,” the Briton told Reuters.

“So it’s about owning up and moving forward.

“And if they can’t do that, it does play into our hands because we go to Canada having finished first and second, those two crashed and when you're not getting on I’m sure you don’t share information as much.”

- Red Bull need to read the riot act, Reuters, May 31, 2010.

2. Brad Pitt was reportedly ‘read the riot act’ by Team Aniston over comments he made about their marriage.

The 47-year-old actor told Parade magazine that he ‘wasn’t living an interesting life’ before meeting current partner Angelina Jolie, and that he was ‘trying to pretend’ that his five-year marriage to Jennifer Aniston was ‘something that it wasn’t’.