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.

Thing is, Brooks and Coulson would have had no hesitation passing moral judgement in a mass circulation newspaper on any other public figure that had a seriously compromising 6-year workplace career.

What's sauce for the goose, etc.

Hypocrites.

AFFAIR, not career. Stupid brain.

There was a six year affair? tell me more!

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/10417805/Phone-hacking-trial-Rebekah-Brooks-and-Andy-Coulson-had-six-year-affair.html

Was she married to Grant Mitchell?

Also in the Guardian, natch, but can't link. Top headline.

Grant Mitchell

Maybe Grant found out and Phil came round to sort her? Seriously didn't she beat him up?

Yes she did. And Andy Coulson married whilst having affair with RB.

Seems they lived the tabloids as well as writing them.

The affair started in 1998

It's only day two and people haven't started giving evidence yet.

I really hope the prosecution hasn't peaked too soon and is saving some goodies like a Monday to Wednesday serialisation.

Perhaps they can ask the people in the dock how it's done.

How weird, these people having affairs and marrying other people at the same time? I clearly live a sheltered life here in London - out in the Cotswolds it all happenin' !

Perhaps they can ask the people in the dock how it's done.
Sure perking up a dull Thursday!

I worked with someone who was the ow when the guy married, she had a lot of issues, including paternal abandonment as a child.

Chipping Norton set make Bloomsbury set look like Victorian tea party....how embarrassed must David Cameron feel? Have I got it wrong - was it not Brooks who introduced Coulson to Cameron?

Sam Cam must be thinking back, wondering about the lol texts now.

I'm a sheltered Londoner too mrsmontalbano.

BTW you trail it with a double page spread on the Saturday because that's your biggest sales day.

I assume you got into Montalbano btw?

I tried because it had all the ingredients to attract me except each episode was a bit too long so I left one halfway through and then my Sky+ packed up and I had to reboot and lost the lot.

I don't want to derail my own thread but I feel a gentle diversion might be safe because we've got a long time to go.

I can always whip it back into shape like the production editor I used to be

montalbano is definitely worth getting into, I love it!

(limited, I was his greatest fan when he was in the books, then loved sries 1 & 2, and recent TYM, sadly the last two episodes have left me a bit cold )
as you were...

Maybe it's because there's not much to do around Chipping Norton.

Though I imagine the trysting place was her flat in Chelsea Harbour - that seems one of the most soulless places on earth too.

Not much action going on at Andy's place either because of the inconvenient presence of Mrs Andy and the Mini-Andys.

I believe it was Dulwich Village. I couldn't afford his house but Dull-wich Village always seemed well-named to me. Apologies to residents. I'm sure it's lovely when you get to know it.

Of course, he's had to downsize since then to fund his defence, which is a policy championed by the Conservative part of the Coalition as an austerity measure.

So I'm sure he won't mind.

We're all in it together.

Oh, I forgot. I'm not

Poor Mrs Andy and mini-Andys :-(

I think so, pirate but Gideon recommended him to Dave too after he unfortunately had to resign from the News of the World because he knew nothing about Clive Goodman's and Glen Mulcaire's phone-hacking.

What a fantastic idea. What could possibly go wrong?

And though we might catsbum, six years is a serious commitment.

It's about as much as you could expect for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

limited, I am loving your style, keep it up

& please don't anybody make MNHQ pull the thread

in fact MNHQ, if any dodgy posts get reported, just pull those posts, not the whole thing, eh?