Roll up! Rebecca Brooks and Andy Coulson in the tumbrils

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It's going to last six months.

At least Andy turned up with a poppy on. Nice touch. Bit early though.

Sorry

not run the photo.

Mr Edis told the court that Mrs Brooks personally authorised payments to an MoD official via a Sun journalist.

He said the only reason for the payments was to make sure the Sun got the story first and some involved the reporting of the deaths of members of the armed forces.

"Sometimes these payments were about things coming into public domain anyway," he added.

"In which case there was no good reason at all for the MoD source to accept money to leak them early. The only advantage of that was that the Sun would get the exclusive.

"It may concern the death of an active serviceman... it really matters when it is released and how it is released to other people affected by it."

Mr Edis said: "Mrs Brooks was involved in a conspiracy to commit the criminal offence of misconduct in a public office - and she knew it."

Mrs Brooks denies conspiracy to phone hack, misconduct in public office, and perverting the course of justice.

The court has heard that three former News of the World journalists, who are not on trial, as well as Mulcaire, had pleaded guilty to phone-hackin g
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24775846

Be careful, just because a MOD employee was in on it doesn't necessarily mean the whole mod was in on it. But that arguement can be used for everyone.

It's easy for a cop, or civil servant to cash in on journalist friends. Doesn't mean they are all in it.

The great game now is to work out who in the police force, the civil service and the GOVERNMENT was complicit

yes, DC & GO have been keeping very quiet about this

As someone said upthread - how long till DC is dragged into this?

I think we can expect a lot of good days to bury bad news days aka Jo Moore with this case.

And a lot of random bollocks from this case to hide other stuff. And good government news to hide case news.

limited you may know better than me how well the press may play along.

But will there be any winners other than HackedOff from this case? The new royal charter is running its course right now. Should it have waited til after this case? It is, after all, all very relevant.

Should say I am on the fence about royal charter. Hate the idea of state regulation but hate how RB and co have, allegedly, behaved.

Allegedly.

Just marking my place to keep up ;)

nightsky tick tock, tick... Tock... Tick.........tock

I have a feeling he may be a tad worried.

Hignfy is in now

Six months, unless they change their plea ...

I have nothing pertinent to add but wanted to say how greatly I'm enjoying your work, limitedperiod.

The image that you've conjured up with "mental dwarf spouse Charlie" is one that will live with me forever.

has anybody ever seen Charlie Brooks & Alan Titchmarsh in the same room?

Not been able to watch hignfy, anything interesting?

LOL at Brooks/Titchmarsh connection.

Ok, up to date on news. Nothing I would consider newsworthy yet, in that... Nothing surprising. Nice to have confirmed, but not shocking. I want NOTW headline worthy juice!! :o

at Titchmarsh connection

MNHQ say they reckon my links to previous threads are OK. (Ta, HQ.)

Marking place in thread. Have followed threads and tried to contribute in the past, perhaps not very well !

I'm disappointed it is the weekend and we don't get another day of this !

Me too KenDodds,

Has anyone got a link to some good knitting patterns? I'd like to make some bunting.

Smirky article in Le Monde about Brookes and Coulson being caught in their own trap. The French have quite strong privacy laws about people in France but love salacious gossip from the uk. They are obviously being careful what they write though, you could sense a smirk but their was nothing in there that you couldn't have read in a UK paper.

That poor little girl, I really feel for her.

That is very sad. I am glad they have made arrangements, I hope she will be ok.