Related Clues:

• Try to make a pronouncement on the rumours
• Two ways to learn languages, it's rumoured
• Straw's antennae for gossip?
• Be told to make a statement on the rumour
• Rumours of spikes in fodder
• It is, as you learn, utter gossip
• Utterly unreliable evidence
• Preside over trial on state rumours
• Listen to utter gossip
• Evidence that's often inadmissible
• Unverified information present, as cryptically suggested?
• Gossip passed around by word of mouth
• Gossip picked up in this place, for example
• Testimony not based on direct knowledge
• Tittle-tattle from ex-grass, perhaps, drawing in listeners