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

[DexterTCN]

6 journos arrested today, apparently to do with a newly discovered conspiracy.

http://order-order.com/2013/02/13/six-more-hacks-nicked-by-weeting-cops/

 

[paulhackett]

4 Mirror journalists arrested..

http://order-order.com/2013/03/14/mirror-journalists-arrested/

 

[DexterTCN]

Also from guido, looks like it's going to be a very, very tight vote on Monday. http://order-order.com/2013/03/14/l...howdown-pairing-withdrawn-with-no-exceptions/

 

[agricola]

Also from guido, looks like it's going to be a very, very tight vote on Monday. http://order-order.com/2013/03/14/l...howdown-pairing-withdrawn-with-no-exceptions/

Every single vote could count, then! In which case ffs.

 

[DexterTCN]

Every single vote could count, then! In which case ffs.

I don't know, it may be a stitch-up anyway (the free vote). They all have a lot invested in keeping the status quo as much as possible.

 

[two sheds]

Oooh a "supergrass" this is exactly what the film version of all this is going to need.

'Supergrass' takes hacking scandal into new territory

Mirror Group shares fall by 20 per cent as editor, deputy and two former editors are held


Evidence from a “supergrass” is understood to have prompted today’s arrests of the former Sunday Mirror editor Tina Weaver and three other executives from the Mirror Group on suspicion of phone hacking.

An insider with knowledge of the workings of a number of tabloid titles is thought to have handed the Metropolitan Police significant new information about the Sunday Mirror and the News of the World.

Scotland Yard is also thought to have obtained evidence from a recent exchange of emails between a small group of current and former Mirror Group executives. Detectives have already drawn up a list of preliminary list of possible victims whose voicemails may have been illegally accessed by Mirror Group journalists. The disclosures have opened a new front in Scotland Yard’s inquiries into illegal news-gathering by tabloid journalists.

Trinity Mirror shares plunged 20 per cent on the London stock exchange, wiping £60m from the firm’s value. Earlier in the day the company announced a 75 per cent fall in profits.

At 6am today, detectives from Operation Weeting raided the homes of Mrs Weaver, who edited the Sunday Mirror for 11 years, until she was ousted last year in a surprise move, and her former deputy (and former People editor) Mark Thomas.

James Scott, current editor of the Sunday Mirror’s sister paper the Sunday People, and his deputy Nick Buckley, both based in the paper’s offices in London’s Docklands, were also arrested. They are the most senior serving journalists to be arrested in the police inquiries into press misbehaviour, which have so far led to more than 100 arrests.

All four were taken to police stations in London and questioned about a new alleged conspiracy to trawl the voicemails of newsworthy individuals for stories.

 

[agricola]

Oooh a "supergrass" this is exactly what the film version of all this is going to need.

If Hislop gets nicked tomorrow, we all know who the grass is.

 

[agricola]

I don't know, it may be a stitch-up anyway (the free vote). They all have a lot invested in keeping the status quo as much as possible.

Probably, I mean a lot of the cleansing effect that Leveson is claimed to provide could just as easily be accomplished by enforcing existing legislation.

 

[DexterTCN]

Probably, I mean a lot of the cleansing effect that Leveson is claimed to provide could just as easily be accomplished by enforcing existing legislation.

Almost entirely (although they need to fix the libel laws in the UK as well).

It wasn't just about the press, it was about the corrupt relationships.

 

[two sheds]

Almost entirely (although they need to fix the libel laws in the UK as well).

It wasn't just about the press, it was about the corrupt relationships.

That could be dealt with by enforcing existing legislation, too, though.

 

[ferrelhadley]

Also from guido, looks like it's going to be a very, very tight vote on Monday. http://order-order.com/2013/03/14/l...howdown-pairing-withdrawn-with-no-exceptions/

Blood in the water.

They can smell it and if Cameron loses this the tory press will want to rip his liver out.

 

[DexterTCN]

Blood in the water.

They can smell it and if Cameron loses this the tory press will want to rip his liver out.

No replacement so not going......omg boris?!!!

 

[two sheds]

No replacement so not going......omg boris?!!!

or pob

 

[Balbi]

Hammond.

Fuck it. HUNT

 

[Badgers]

Four or six? It is a good relevant bump anyway.

 

[two sheds]

Oh bugger

Phone hacking: Rupert Murdoch hit by 600 fresh claims

Detectives are examining an estimated 600 fresh allegations of phone-hacking incidents at Rupert Murdoch's now closed News of the World on the back of fresh evidence obtained by the Metropolitan police from a suspect turned supergrass.

Further details are expected to emerge on Monday morning at the high court during a hearing relating to the existing litigation by hacking victims against Murdoch's News International (NI) – hours before MPs are due to vote on joint Labour and Liberal Democrat amendments that would introduce a backstop law to stiffen regulation of the press.

Sources say Scotland Yard detectives believe they can identify as many as 600 new incidents after obtaining the phone records of an insider who is now being lined up as a crown witness. As a result of the new information, the force's Operation Weeting is recalibrating the timetable for concluding its investigation, which had been due to be completed with the conclusion of trials this year. Police now expect their work to continue into 2015.

The 600 new potential litigants fall into three groups: new victims; others who sued over hacking but signed agreements with NI allowing them to sue the company again; and a third group who signed agreements potentially barring them from suing again. The indications are that there may be "some hundreds of new legal actions" from the first two groups.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/mar/15/phone-hacking-murdoch-news-world

 

[agricola]

Oh bugger

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/mar/15/phone-hacking-murdoch-news-world

Be interesting to see how many of these "new" cases have been previously disclosed to the investigating officers by the Management and Standards Committee.

Or rather it will be interesting to have it confirmed that none of them were.

 

[laptop]

It would of course be entirely improper to speculate on the identity of the supergrass


* checks reports for acrostics *

 

[sleaterkinney]

Blood in the water.

They can smell it and if Cameron loses this the tory press will want to rip his liver out.

Will they hell, it was them who told him to come up with the proposals.

The parties will probably come to an agreement over the weekend.

 

[laptop]

Be interesting to see how many of these "new" cases have been previously disclosed to the investigating officers by the Management and Standards Committee.

Or rather it will be interesting to have it confirmed that none of them were.

Which would or will throw an interesting light on:

Rupert Murdoch said to have voiced doubts about corporate 'clean-up' unit

Mogul said to have questioned his decision to set up unit that provided information to police, leading to arrest of Sun journalists

• Lisa O'Carroll and Roy Greenslade

• guardian.co.uk,Thursday 7 March 2013 17.33 GMT

 

[shagnasty]

It would of course be entirely improper to speculate on the identity of the supergrass


* checks reports for acrostics *

Could you imagine if they knew the identity of the supergrass ,they would go to town the papers to discredit them

 

[DexterTCN]

The timing is perfect for the free vote.

 

[Balbi]

3am deal apparently. Statutory backstop apparently in, Press Veto on commission membership out.

Expect all sides to claim glorious victory.

Fascinating structure. Royal Charter on Press Regulation, amendment to Regulatory Bill stating Royal Charters (of any form regulatory) can only be overridden by a Super Majority (2/3) of both Commons and Lords. Not direct statutory underpinning, but it's nailed down there in law so ministers can't fuck with it.

Now, the wording of the Charter itself - that'll be the new frontline.

 

[two sheds]

I wonder how they're dealing with Private Eye, I presume that'll be the one they really want to shut up.

 

[Balbi]

I wonder how they're dealing with Private Eye, I presume that'll be the one they really want to shut up.

I like the Eye - but let's not pretend it's anything more than a paper equivalent of the mateyness of the comment bubble.

 

[two sheds]

Yes, but they seem to give details of the illegal behaviour of politicians and their advisors etc. that doesn't appear elsewhere, so clearly invading MPs' privacy.

The first proposals as I recall involved registration which would have made it difficult for the Eye to continue without being sued to fuck even more then they are now sued to fuck.

 

[teqniq]

Who would've thunk it? What with the main suspects most probably having very deep pockets I wonder how this is going to pan out?

Press regulation at risk as newspaper groups refuse to endorse deal

 

[ymu]

Cheeky fucks.

 

[DexterTCN]

On Newsnight...apparently a bit has been added in to include any web-site that has more than one person with an opinion and there is any editorial control.

That is...any website in the UK.

 

[ymu]

Wut?