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.

Yup, those were the days, Typos, those were the days. [Sad]

'The affair between the two former editors was disclosed on the day that the court heard detailed allegations that Brooks and Coulson had used illegally hacked voicemail messages to expose the extra-marital affairs of Labour ministers John Prescott and David Blunkett and of the trade union leader Andy Gilchrist.
The jury was shown a leader column published by the Sun under Brooks's editorship which described Gilchrist as " a lying, cheating, low-life fornicator "'

It just gets better & better, doesn't it?

My mind is well and truly boggled.

I do wish uk courts were televised. I'd love to see them squirming.

How can people not believe in religion? Could you get a better example of divine retribution? Perfect punishment fitting the crime.

Marking place and trying not to rub my hands gleefully together at the sheer and utter cosmic karma of it all

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I wonder what the Cameron's Christmas dinner list will read like now.

Do his phone

That's what Andy Coulson emailed Ian Edmondson after an exchange discussing how to find out if Calum Best was planning to go to a rival paper with news about his new baby.

There's probably lots of interpretations. I can only think of one though. Can anyone else help?

Erm no, unless he meant it in a 'oh I really want to do his phone' sexual way.

You mean like that story where a Premiership player was supposed to have shoved his mobile up his bum set to vibrate and kept calling it?

I thought the News of the World was a family newspaper.

While a large part of me thinks they deserve this trial and if found guilty they deserve custodial sentences I do feel sorry for the girl adopted by the Brooks. She faces losing her mum and dad for a significant period of time.

They've just read an email from Clive Goodman to Andy Coulson asking for £1,000 to pay a Royal Protection Squad officer for a book with private numbers in it.

Goodman explains that the copper won't accept anything but cash because he'll be open to a criminal offence, 'as will we.'

He moans that Stuart Kuttner wouldn't authorise cash.

There's no response from Coulson or Kuttner but how could they say they didn't know what Goodman was doing?

Perhaps they didn't read his emails.

Live feed from the twitter @bbcDomC
Tis gripping

limited, you're slaying me!

Can you write the book, please?

How come Casciani's allowed to tweet from the courtroom? I thought that was banned under "broadcasting". Or is he nipping in and out?

Limited is that true about the football player? I live a very sheltered life!

I don't do twitter but I might start just for this.
Or is there a website to get all the updates?

Another good one @jamesdoleman

Or go to #hackingtrial. They're all there!

Thanks Parsing and Dolly - I've got it on now. I think you can tweet - I think it was a recent ruling.

I don't know whether it's true excusetypos. There were a lot of stories about him.

It sounds a bit dubious. An iPhone up the bum wouldn't be a pleasurable experience, surely. Though I did once have a very small clam shell. Can't say it ever crossed my mind to do that. I wouldn't want to press it close to my face afterwards.

Oh, this is fabulous! I can see the twatterers without having a twat account

mobile.twitter.com/BBCDomC

And can you imagine the damage one of those diamond-encrusted Vertus that all the WAGs have would do?

I can't stand finger marks on my iPhone let alone anything else!

Have found the best tweeter, he is super fast @peterjukes worth going back over his tweets til they come back at 2

They're saying no live tweeting during defense, but that may change