Some bloke just charged into the room trying to attack the Murdochs. I think it might have been Tom Humphries. The sitting has been suspended for ten minutes.
murdoch has the wife well trained she was quick with the handbag there
Plate of shaving foam thrown at poor Rupert. His wife hit a slap on your man. BBC showing it every minute or two http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14193124
âHearing will reconvene shortly with no press or publicâ :rolleyes:
"Attacker named as comedian Jonnie Marbles :lol:
Sky News still covering it. Murdoch press are still allowed in as they donât count as proper journalists.
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Murdochâs wife is a stunner, you have to hand it to him.
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interesting viewpoint from the IT about the whole scandal and the pressure on cameron
Ah I think thatâs a brutal article.
Labour have their own problems of course, some of which are highlighted in the article but the issues arenât really relevant or comparable. Thereâs a difference between data protection, data privacy and associated civil liberties and the type of things the NoTW got up to. None of which are mentioned of course. Just because Blair was a crook doesnât mean Cameron should be exempt from criticism. Shit articles like that really annoy me. You canât imply a conclusion like he has based on misleading and irrelevant facts presented.
Oh please let this lead to Piers cuntface Morgan getting the boot from Larry Kings chair and never working anywhere ever again.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/23/phone-hacking-piers-morgan-mirror
Sara Payne, whose eight-year-old daughter Sarah was abducted and murdered in July 2000, has been told by Scotland Yard that they have found evidence to suggest she was targeted by the News of the Worldâs investigator Glenn Mulcaire, who specialised in hacking voicemail.
Police had earlier told her correctly that her name was not among those recorded in Mulcaireâs notes, but on Tuesday officers from Operation Weeting told her they had found her personal details among the investigatorâs notes. These had previously been thought to refer to a different target.
Friends of Payne have told the Guardian that she is âabsolutely devastated and deeply disappointedâ at the disclosure. Her cause had been championed by the News of the World, and in particular by its former editor, Rebekah Brooks. Believing that she had not been a target for hacking, Payne wrote a farewell column for the paperâs final edition on 10 July, referring to its staff as âmy good and trusted friendsâ.
The evidence that police have found in Mulcaireâs notes is believed to relate to a phone given to Payne by Brooks as a gift to help her stay in touch with her supporters.
One of Payneâs close colleagues said: âWe are all appalled and disgusted. Sara is in bits about it.â
In a statement, Brooks said the latest allegations were âabhorrentâ and âparticularly upsettingâ because Sara Payne was a âdear friendâ.
Coming after the disclosure that the News of the World hacked and deleted the voicemail of the murdered Surrey schoolgirl Milly Dowler, the news will raise further questions about whether News Corporation is âfit and properâ to own TV licences and its 39% share of BSkyB.
It will also revive speculation about any possible role in phone hacking of Brooks, who was personally very closely involved in covering the aftermath of Sarah Payneâs murder and has always denied any knowledge of voicemail interception. On 15 July Brooks resigned as chief executive of News International and was arrested and interviewed by police.
The Labour MP Tom Watson, who has been an outspoken critic of News International, said of the Payne revelation: âThis is a new low. The last edition of the News of the World made great play of the paperâs relationship with the Payne family. Brooks talked about it at the committee inquiry. Now this. I have nothing but contempt for the people that did this.â
Friends of Payne said she had accepted the News of the World as a friend and ally. Journalists from the paper attended the funerals of her mother and father and visited her sick bed after she suffered a severe stroke in December 2009.
In the wake of the Guardianâs disclosure on 4 July of the hacking of Milly Dowlerâs phone, there were rumours that Payne also might have been a victim. Police from Operation Weeting, which has been investigating the News of the Worldâs phone hacking since January, checked the names of Payne and her closest associates against its database of all the information contained in the notebooks, computer records and audio tapes seized from Glenn Mulcaire in August 2006. They found nothing.
The News of the Worldâs sister paper, the Sun, was quick to report on its website, on 8 July, that Payne had been told there was no evidence to support the rumours. The next day the Sun quoted her paying tribute to the News of the World, whose closure had been announced by News International. âItâs like a friend died. Iâm so shocked,â she told them.
In the paperâs final edition on Sunday 10 July, Payne registered her own anger at the hacking of Milly Dowlerâs phone: âWe have all seen the news this week and the terrible things that have happened, and I have no wish to sweep it under the carpet. Indeed, there were rumours - which turned out to be untrue - that I and my fellow Phoenix charity chiefs had our phones hacked. But today is a day to reflect, to look back and remember the passing of an old friend, the News of the World.â
Since then, detectives from Weeting have searched the Mulcaire database for any reference to mobile phone numbers used by Sara Payne or her closest associates or any other personal details. They are believed to have uncovered notes made by Mulcaire which include some of these details but which had previously been thought to refer to a different target of his hacking. Police have some 11,000 pages of notes which Mulcaire made in the course of intercepting the voicemail of targets chosen by the News of the World.
Friends of Sara Payne today said that she had made no decision about whether to sue the paper and that she wanted the police to be able to finish their work before she decided.
Operation Weeting is reviewing all high-profile cases involving the murder, abduction or assault of any child since 2001 in an attempt to find out if any of those involved was the target of phone-hacking.
The statement from Brooks said: "For the benefit of the campaign for Sarahâs Law, the News of the World have provided Sara with a mobile telephone for the last 11 years. It was not a personal gift.
"The idea that anyone on the newspaper knew that Sara or the campaign team were targeted by Mr Mulcaire is unthinkable. The idea of her being targeted is beyond my comprehension.
âIt is imperative for Sara and the other victims of crime that these allegations are investigated and those culpable brought to justice.â
This one made me chuckle the other day:
âRupert Murdoch has announced heâs been deeply moved by the tributes and messages of sympathy left on Amy Winehouseâs phone.â
Anyone been following the Leveson Inquiry?
The tabloids are really being shown up for the utter scum that they are.
Itâs not just the tabloids though Runty, itâs the public that lap it up too. They wouldnât be doing the kind of stuff they did if it didnât sell newspapers.
To quote Alan Partridge, I just hate the general public.
From reading reports about this hacking scandal it seems that the press in the UK have everything hacked.
Ann Diamond (Iâd never heard of her before yesterday) said that she found her 4 month child dead in his cot. Her husband rang the police straight away and even before the cops had arrived there was journalists on the door step trying to force their way into the house. Animals.
I feel strongly that our Weird News Stories thread should be discontinued in sympathy with the innocent victims of media intrusion. Iâd like to see leadership from Rocko and Bandage on this matter to be honest.