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New thread to continue from God those NoW journos were utter scum weren't they?

The beans have been all over the floor for years.

Nick Davies, the Guardian, Hugh Grant, the NY Times and so on have been valiantly publishing away for years about this.

The only change is in the public, who have suddenly decided to care. Because Milly Dowler got their attention, while politicians and slebs were studiously ignored.

RB is 43, isn't she?

\link{http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/world/europe/17police.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2\NYTimes piece} on cosiness between NI & Scotland Yard

'Executives and others at the company also enjoyed close social ties to Scotland Yard?s top officials. Since the hacking scandal began in 2006, Mr. Yates and others regularly dined with editors from News International papers, records show. Sir Paul Stephenson, the police commissioner, met for meals 18 times with company executives and editors during the investigation, including on eight occasions with Mr. Wallis while he was still working at The News of the World.
Senior police officials declined several requests to be interviewed for this article.
The police have continually asserted that the original investigation was limited because the counterterrorism unit, which was in charge of the case, was preoccupied with more pressing demands. At the parliamentary committee hearing last week, the three officials said they were working on 70 terrorist investigations.
Yet the Metropolitan Police unit that deals with special crimes, and which had more resources and time available, could have taken over the case, said four former senior investigators. One said it was ?utter nonsense? to argue that the department did not have enough resources. '

according to wiki too, justabout : born 27 May 1968

oh & the Graun says "it is understood to be" RB

I hear the tumbrils...

The Telegraph has this bit on their phone hacking page:

'David Mitchell in The Observer wonders how that paper can pick up a few of the News of the World's now-unclaimed readers. He says: "We must give them the scintillating scandal and gossip for which that paper was famous, but still protect our current readers' sensibilities with a spurious sense of irony ? basically like G2... We'll have to fall back on that old tabloid staple, from before the red tops became poisoned by their obsession with illegally gotten accuracy: making stuff up. Here's a taste:

"One-in-a-bed romp without Ryan Giggs: We talk exclusively to unpunctual vice girl Linda, who arrived at Chinawhite too late to romp with Ryan Giggs. "He told me he'd already romped several times that night and was sort of romped-out. He said the last thing he wanted was another romp. So I checked into the same hotel as him and tried to romp on my own but it wasn't the same. In the end, I built a little fort." '

ROFL at romped-out & the little fort

Yay!!!!!

BBC website confirms that RB has been arrested

she was 'arrested by appointment' though - not dragged off in handcuffs.

& because of this she won't have to appear in the Commons on Tuesday apparently (I don't know why either!)

Hurrah! About time too.

Clarkson is firewalled, justa, can you c&p please?

paywalled I mean, duh

OK, before this happened the Independent on Sunday said:
"The hearing on Tuesday has been described as the most important select committee session in the history of Parliament.

Committee sources are furious at the suggestion that Ms Brooks will try to close down questioning of her knowledge of hacking while she was News of the World editor by saying she cannot prejudice an ongoing police investigation.

A source said: "If she tries to close down the questioning, the whole world will be watching."

It is understood that the committee has legal advice that as Ms Brooks, and the Murdochs, have not been arrested by officers investigating hacking, they must reveal, under oath, what they knew."

So that's now blown. Can she claim right to silence, or something?

Any speculations on the other arrest?

who else has been arrested? someone else has now as well...

also someone is going to resign today??

ooooooooooohhh

someone high up and police-y?

someone higher up and media -ey?

Can't help feeling that the Met have done this to cover their own sorry arses to prevent her appearing tuesday and being asked about financial links between NI and the police. How can the police who are also in teh frame arrest her and expect people to take it seriously We are not totally stupid!

David Mitchell is a pretentious twat of the highest order. Patronsizing and a snob.