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Missing Milly Dowler's voicemail "hacked by News of the World"

2.11pm: Sir Harold Evans appears briefly via video link, but is experiencing technical difficulties and has offered to catch a plane to London this afternoon.
Leveson wonders whether that might be necessary as the inquiry takes an unexpected break.
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Conspiracy! :eek: :hmm: :mad:

Also, "oh, I'll pop on a plane this afternoon" :rolleyes: :D
 
For those who havent seen it already, there is a very interesting piece in the latest Eye (issue 1314) about the connection between Labour, News International, and Michael Gove.
 
The Sun don't have a wonderful record with reporting facts, but giving away Euro 2012 stickers of Rio Ferdinand when he's been quite publically dropped by Hodgson from the squad is a pretty big oversight from a paper that's "the voice of football".
 
Interesting:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/17/harold-evans-leveson-murdoch-times

More temporary alzheimers from murdoch:

Speaking to the Leveson inquiry via an often failing video link, Evans said the takeover had been the "seminal event" that had propelled Murdoch into the dominant position in British media, a deal that had been assisted by a private meeting with Margaret Thatcher.
Evans recalled that Murdoch did not remember that meeting, the truth of which emerged only when a memo was released by Thatcher's foundation this year.
In effect, the veteran journalist was siding with a suggestion made previously by Robert Jay, counsel to the inquiry, who contended that Murdoch could have suffered "selective amnesia".
The former editor told the inquiry he believed a deal was hatched at that lunch to stop the purchase being referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission (MMC).
It was "ridiculous" to push through the "most important newspaper takeover in British press history" in three days, he said, adding that it "was a whole set of chess moves" in which "the pawn" had been advanced in a single move to the middle of the board "to bishop six".
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and good testimony on how little editorial interference there was from Murdoch:

This rapidly changed. Evans described a year of constant editorial interference from Murdoch, replaying the events as if they had occurred the day before yesterday.
"I had a reporter in Poland sending little messages out in people's shoes," he said. The story was "a marvellous narrative" of events around the coup, spread over two pages. The next morning, though, the newspaper owner was unimpressed. "He turned to the Sun newspaper, which had this much on Poland: 'That's all you need on Poland'."
A leader writer was summoned behind Evans's back and told: "You should be attacking the Russians more."
At another point Evans replayed an argument with Murdoch in which the newspaper owner stated: "Sport, didn't I tell you sport, sport, sport, where are the four pages of sport?"
Evans said he had recently seen notes kept by the columnist Hugo Young, then of the Sunday Times, which showed Evans calling Murdoch "evil incarnate … he had his heart removed long ago, together with all his moral faculties". Evans said he had been "kind of so furious" that Murdoch had broken so many of the promises he made on buying the paper.
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which seems direct evidence that Murdoch has lied to Leveson - as I recall he made his standard claim that he didn't affect editorial decisions (hoho).

wasn't quite sure what was meant by the last line in this though, at the end of the piece:

It was evidence that the inquiry team listened to, for the most part, patiently. At the end the judge said that the insights had been particularly valuable, coming "from one who's spent a lifetime in the area and in respect of whom so much has been written and so many fabulous stories have emerged".
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i think it tells us immediately that they've got a good team, but that they're already scrabbling to grab something anything for lack of other good stuff to keep quiet and confident about.
 
No chance of even getting a Judicial Review - feed any Application in the shredder:
“It is preposterous to question the judgement of my principal legal adviser of my Principal Legal Advisor, Alison Levitt QC, on the basis that five years ago the News of the World wrote three sentences about her private life, repeating what had been reported elsewhere and which had been, in any event, common knowledge for a year.

“Alison Levitt QC was not even aware that the News of the World had written anything about her until it was drawn to her attention yesterday. She is a distinguished and highly respected QC."
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But I'm sure the Telegraph enjoyed finally having a story to report on the broader subject. No one much else for her to leak it to, I suppose.

The legal system isn't as pliable as the rest.
 
London_Calling said:
But I'm sure the Telegraph enjoyed finally having a story to report on the broader subject. No one much else for her to leak it to, I suppose.
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By Christopher Hope, Senior Political Correspondent....don't reckon it was her, more likely one her neighbours political friends
 
butchersapron said:
i think it tells us immediately that they've got a good team, but that they're already scrabbling to grab something anything for lack of other good stuff to keep quiet and confident about.
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Looks pretty desperate to me.

Prediction (evens only): a drip of irrelevant claims of bias and improper procedure right through to the opening of proceedings.
 
It's a fairly weak accusation in itself, it's only in the context of everything else going on that it's particularly newsworthy.
 
This Jeremy Hunt malarkey is a rather interesting vignette all of itself; first James Murdoch stitches him up under oath, then Mrs Wade finds an incriminating email - this in relation to their self-proclaimed "cheerleader", now some no-name Labout MP is fed low grade info from God knows where.

Hunt's been thrown under the bus so many times he should get an Oyster Card.

I suppose it's all to do with News Int. desire to bridge Disco Dave's firewall (and watch him slowly burn), but it is interesting to see the game slowly unfolding.
 
mccabe hasn't necessarily been fed anything - it looks like he's (or someone has anyway) just been cross referencing vaisey's disclosures against hunt's.
 
Kaka Tim said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18144837

Jeremy Hunt in more shit. To be investigated for undisclosed donations from (unnamed) media firms.
The cunt is so blatantly corrupt. Why is he still in a job?
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Media firms named here - Tory scum ad agency M&C Saatchi, New Labour loving DDB and the nauseating Groucho Club. Three and a half grand undeclared. Hardly a major scandal, though the dread image of Jeremy Cunt and his tories networking at smarmy media events is one that will haunt me down the years. GUILTY!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/may/03/jeremy-hunt-failed-declare-media-donations
 
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