Fascinating that the managing editor can’t exactly remember whether he spoke to phone hacker Glenn Mulcaire who received over £1m from News International.
Day 86, Part 1:
Stuart Kuttner may have spoken on the phone to the News of the World’s phone hacking specialist Glenn Mulcaire, he told the Old Bailey today.
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Child abuser Sir Cyril Smith at 1990 Liberal Democrat conference. pic credit: PA News Photo via Huffington Post
Expect major new revelations about child sex abuse in Rochdale around the late paedophile Mp Sir Cyril Smith as the police examine 33 boxes of new evidence uncovered from Knowl View Special school.
A report in Exaro News by my colleague Nick Fielding warns that the files now being examined by the police could provide further horrendous disclosures surrounding child sexual abuse in the town. Although the police abandoned an investigation in Cyril Smith they are now investigating complaints of child sexual abuse involving the school committed by other people at the time.
The investigation comes as a new book by Labour MP Simon Danzcuk, the MP for Rochdale will be published this month which will look at Cyril Smith’s career and connections.
Far from going away it looks like that further revelations will show just like the Jimmy Savile affair, Cyril Smith was able to get away with his appalling predatory career without any hindrance or intervention from people who should have known better.
A whole new advertising campaign is now available to Fairy Liquid courtesy of Charlie Brooks – the gentle washing up liquid that clears the inner stains on your character as well as your dishes!
Day 85, Part 1:
Rebekah Brooks’s husband once drank a pint of washing up liquid, the Old Bailey heard today. In one of the most unexpected anecdotes at the phone hacking trial, Mr Brooks’s friend Sarah Bradstock recalled that one day she had found him “frothing at the mouth”.
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Revealed : The Pizza in Pizzagate
Day 85, Part 2:
The pizza at the centre of an alleged conspiracy to pervert the course of justice by Rebekah Brooks and her husband Charlie was probably a Large Italian Supreme with an extra portion of garlic bread, the Old Bailey heard today.
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This is an extraordinary vibrant description of a Buddhist pilgrimage up a mountain off the beaten track on the Thai Cambodia border and a remarkable piece of travel journalism. I would warn you the videos are pretty noisy but the scenes it portrayed give an insight into another world far removed from the West. So far removed he is the only Westerner there. I have reblogged it as a unique description of an entirely different way of life and values and for painting an alternative view of touristy Thailand. The blogger, a Swede, is a one off as well!
The story of Charlie Brooks’ missing bag stowed under a News International desk
Day 84, Part 2:
A News International administration assistant helped place a bag belonging to Charlie Brooks into two bin bags and stowed the property under her desk at the newspaper group’s HQ for hours while Mr Brooks’s wife Rebekah was under arrest, a court heard today.
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Another defendant too ill to continue giving evidence in the hacking trial.
Day 83
: Clive Goodman, former royal editor of the News of the World, is still too unwell to continue giving evidence at the phone hacking trial, the jury was told today.
Mr Goodman, who has recently had a heart operation, denies making payments to police officers to obtain copies of three royal phone directories found at his home seven years ago.
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Just when Parliament’s IT boss had promised that their new computer system was up and running again and ready to expand, guess what happens.
It takes just 90 minutes for another crash with a hasty call to IT experts to convene to sort out why so many MPs and peers offices still can’t access the internet.
Full details of the story are on the Exaro News website and in Computer Weekly .They come from the latest leaks from inside Parliament – one general memo to all staff telling them everything is working well and another to the IT team saying everything has started to go wrong.
At this rate it looks as though Parliament with its thousands of internal subscribers is going to join other institutions in Whitehall and the NHS with a system plagued with problems.
A total denial from Mark Hanna, NI’s security chief, that he was part of a plot to shield Rebekah Brooks from the police investigation into phone hacking. He also says he has never heard of President Nixon’s Watergate. Really! Where’s this man been living all this time.
Day 83:
News International’s head of security today denied being part of a plot to shield Rebekah Brooks and the newspaper group from the Metropolitan Police’s investigation into phone hacking.
Mark Hanna, suspended on full pay by the newspaper company when he was charged in May 2012, said he would not commit a crime for anyone.
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Revealed by the defence; The hiding of the bags is all about keeping Charlie Brooks ‘ lesbian DVDs away from prying police eyes and not embarrassing Rebekah. Nothing about phone hacking!
Day 82, Part 1:
A security chief for Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper group agreed to keep from the police a stash of pornography belonging to the husband of former chief executive Rebekah Brooks, the phone hacking trial heard today.
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Westminster Confidential 