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Breaking News: Rebekah Brooks has been arrested by police investigating hacking claims at News International.
Source:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14178051 |
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Well done jim. :up: |
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Yeah, but am not surprised she must have know something was going on :yep:. Who next then Murdoch and hopefully Cameron:D |
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Phone hacking: Cameron's 'regret' over hiring Coulson
David Cameron has told MPs that "with hindsight" he would not have hired ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson.
In the closest he has come to an apology, the PM said: "Of course I regret, and I am extremely sorry, about the furore it has caused." Mr Coulson quit the NoW over phone hacking, saying he knew nothing about it but took ultimate responsibility. Amid stormy Commons scenes Labour leader Ed Miliband said hiring him was a "catastrophic error of judgement". And the prime minister came under pressure from Labour MPs to confirm whether he had any conversations about News Corporation's now aborted bid to fully takeover BSkyB with executives from the company such as Rebekah Brooks, Rupert or James Murdoch. He had returned early from a trip to Africa to make an emergency statement on the phone hacking crisis. Mr Cameron said that if Mr Coulson - Mr Cameron's former media spokesman - had lied about phone hacking at his time at the News of the World then he should face "severe" criminal charges. 'Protect himself' He added: "If it turns out I have been lied to that would be a moment for a profound apology, and in that event I can tell you I will not fall short." And he told MPs that with hindsight "I would not have offered him the job and I expect that he wouldn't have taken it". BBC political correspondent Gary O'Donoghue said "bit by bit, Mr Cameron is cutting Mr Coulson further adrift". But Mr Miliband said Mr Cameron's comments were "not good enough" and said repeated questions about Mr Coulson had been met "with a wall of silence" by Mr Cameron's aides. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14214702 Note: Update Record, 20 July 2011 Last updated at 14:02 GMT |
Been on the news since 11.30 am GMT and every 15 minutes thereafter :damn:
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..... It starts to slow down a bit, :roll:
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I hope so because it is getting a tad tiresome to the populace of the UK...but that of course is our problem :doh:
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So now that Murdoch has announced that they will no longer pay Mulcaires legal feesand he didn't really know who was paying them or why they were paying them or who authorised paying them as Mulcaire wasn't really an employee and wasn't really with News International at all in the slightest nosiree honest guv.....does that mean that Mulcaire is freed from the gagging order that was imposed as part of the deal to pay his fees? Could it be that Murdoch in attempting to distance the company from the pile of excrement is really jumping right up to his neck in it? |
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Phone hacking: What about George?
Whatever the prime minister did or didn't say in his "appropriate" conversations with the Murdochs and Rebekah Brooks about their bid to take over BSkyB, these would not have been the only ministerial chats on the subject.
The Chancellor George Osborne was, I believe, closer to the Murdochs - certainly to James - than David Cameron. They share a mutual dislike for Gordon Brown unlike Rupert whose wife Wendi was friends with Sarah Brown and whose two daughters played together with the Browns' children. In her evidence this week Rebekah Brooks said that it was George Osborne who, in effect, hired Andy Coulson to work for David Cameron - the chancellor all but confirmed that in his FT interview today, saying he was "the first person to approach Mr Coulson". For days Team Osborne have been assembling a list of his meetings to publish. A decision has now been taken to incorporate them with a list of all cabinet ministers' meetings. I have been enquiring for some days when this will be. One, in particular, will be worth looking for. It's a dinner in New York at which Rupert Murdoch and George Osborne were both guests in the run-up to Christmas last year - that's around the very time that Vince Cable lost responsibility for the BSkyB decision. George is, I am told, entirely relaxed about the information and has told colleagues he didnt make a special trip to the States to see Daddy Murdoch and did not discuss the BSkyB bid. PS. One note of caution on these lists. They can conceal as much as they reveal. At least one of the meetings between NI executives and the prime minister was a routine off-the-record journalistic briefing about policy. I know because I was at one of them along with a journalist from another media organisation. What's more, none of these lists show the texts and calls from mobile phones which - unlike those made from office phones - are not logged or listened in to by civil servants. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14232657 Note: Update Record,21 July 2011 Last updated at 08:57 GMT |
This is for you, Jim, so you can monitor everything ... and not miss anything, :DL
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