UK & World News: Rupert Murdoch minion lobbied George Osborne to help struggling BskyB bid

Source: People.co.uk

A MINION of Rupert Murdoch begged George Osborne for help when the media mogul’s £8billion BSkyB bid ran into trouble. Business Secretary Vince Cable refused to have anything to do with Murdoch ­lobbyists when he was in charge of ­deciding whether to ...
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Jeremy Hunt 'ready to consider his future' as pressure grows

Source: Metro.co.uk

Mr Hunt was viewed as one of the Cabinet's most capable ministers until revelations at the Leveson Inquiry raised questions about the relationship between his department and News Corp at a time when Rupert Murdoch's company was trying ...
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Hunt to face Leveson inquiry grilling

Source: Big Pond News

Beleaguered British Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt will appear before the Leveson inquiry this week in one of its most high profile hearings so far. Hunt will face a grilling on Thursday over his office's links with Rupert Murdoch's Ne ...
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American dream rise of £12 billion Facebook bride: Father of Zuckerberg's new wife was Asian refugee who worked 18-hour days in Chinese takeaway

Source: Daily Mail - UK

When Priscilla Chan married her long-time boyfriend, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, last weekend she looked every inch the fairytale bride. In a stunning full-length white gown, 27-year-old Priscilla smiled se ...
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Source: Maoxian

THE wedding of Mark Zuckerberg to Priscilla Chan last weekend here in the backyard of their $7 million home had all the staging of a carefully orchestrated celebrity event. A publicist for Facebook eagerly offered photos afterward of the beaming couple, ...
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Osborne to face questions over links to Murdoch

Source: The Independent

Sources close to the inquiry said that it would be "madness" not to consider the Chancellor as a key witness, given that he was at the heart of the relationship between the Conservative Party and Rupert Murdoch's compan ...
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Sued for £250m, thanks to Murdoch's meddling

Source: The Independent

Investigative journalism can be a two-edged sword, as I discovered to my loss when inquiring into John Zachary DeLorean, the American car builder whose "dream" gull-wing DMC-12, built in Northern Ireland, lost the UK government more than £80m and ...
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John Rentoul: A textbook case of how not to defuse a scandal

Source: The Independent

Jeremy Hunt probably will resign, but if he does it will be for his secondary crime of misleading the House of Commons, rather than for his original misjudgement. As All the President's Men taught us, it is the cover-up ...
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Parliamentary coverage: cancelled due to lack of interest

Source: Guardian Unlimited

Assorted politicians troop into Leveson's Strand courtroom and complain that they are mild-mannered public servants who bear neither private malice nor vitriol (of the "Ed Balls is a poisonous influence" variety, as Peter Mandelson once told ...
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