News International denies former British PM’s criticism

News International denies former British PM’s criticism
Jul 13, 2011 01:41
guest3563	Mr Brown, the former Prime Minister of the UK, accused The Sunday Times of accessing to his bank account and legal flies and claimed the paper hired criminals as investigators to work on stories about him. But News International has denied Mr Brown’s criticism, saying stories about him were legitimately sourced and in the “public interest”. Meanwhile, sister paper the Sun said that they didn’t access the medical records of Mr. Brown’s son and they didn’t ask anyone to do so. In 2006, Mr. Brown’s son was born. The Sun was the first media that reported the little guy suffered from cystic fibrosis. But the paper insisted that they gained the source via legitimate channel. The spokeswoman for Mr Brown said in response: "The matter is now in the hands of police." In other developments in the phone-hacking scandal: Evidence has been found suggesting a News of the World reporter tried to buy a phone book containing Royal Family numbers Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall may have also been targets of phone-hacking conducted at the News of the World, according to the Guardian Scotland Yard says it believes stories have been leaked to the media as part of a "deliberate campaign to undermine" its inquiry into claims that bribes have been paid to some officers Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt confirms that he is referring News Corp's bid to take over BSkyB to the Competition Commission. It comes after News Corporation withdrew its proposed undertaking to sell Sky News as part of its bid. The family of the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler met Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to discuss concerns that her phone may have been hacked by the News of the World. The Dowler family called on Rebekah Brooks - the newspaper's editor at the time - to resign as chief executive of News International The BBC understands Rebekah Brooks could be questioned by police as a witness, rather than a suspect. Mrs Brooks has denied having had any knowledge of hacking while she was editor from 2000 to 2003 Labour MP Tom Watson says the position of John Yates, assistant commissioner at the Metropolitan Police who led the original investigation into phone hacking, is "untenable" Prime Minister David Cameron said he had had no information to suggest Mr Coulson knew about phone hacking when he employed him but if "those assurances were untrue, I would be incredibly angry and incredibly let down Source: from BBC news.

Jul 13, 2011 01:41

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Mr Brown, the former Prime Minister of the UK, accused The Sunday Times of accessing to his bank account and legal flies and claimed the paper hired criminals as investigators to work on stories about him. But News International has denied Mr Brown’s criticism, saying stories about him were legitimately sourced and in the “public interest”.

Meanwhile, sister paper the Sun said that they didn’t access the medical records of Mr. Brown’s son and they didn’t ask anyone to do so. In 2006, Mr. Brown’s son was born. The Sun was the first media that reported the little guy suffered from cystic fibrosis. But the paper insisted that they gained the source via legitimate channel.

The spokeswoman for Mr Brown said in response: "The matter is now in the hands of police."

In other developments in the phone-hacking scandal:

Evidence has been found suggesting a News of the World reporter tried to buy a phone book containing Royal Family numbers

Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall may have also been targets of phone-hacking conducted at the News of the World, according to the Guardian

Scotland Yard says it believes stories have been leaked to the media as part of a "deliberate campaign to undermine" its inquiry into claims that bribes have been paid to some officers

Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt confirms that he is referring News Corp's bid to take over BSkyB to the Competition Commission. It comes after News Corporation withdrew its proposed undertaking to sell Sky News as part of its bid.

The family of the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler met Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to discuss concerns that her phone may have been hacked by the News of the World. The Dowler family called on Rebekah Brooks - the newspaper's editor at the time - to resign as chief executive of News International

The BBC understands Rebekah Brooks could be questioned by police as a witness, rather than a suspect. Mrs Brooks has denied having had any knowledge of hacking while she was editor from 2000 to 2003

Labour MP Tom Watson says the position of John Yates, assistant commissioner at the Metropolitan Police who led the original investigation into phone hacking, is "untenable"

Prime Minister David Cameron said he had had no information to suggest Mr Coulson knew about phone hacking when he employed him but if "those assurances were untrue, I would be incredibly angry and incredibly let down

Source: from BBC news.

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