Sentences with phrase «as phone hacking»

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Sir John Yates, Britain's most senior policeman, told MPs on the media committee that he had been informed by prosecutors that a message would have to have been intercepted before it was heard by the intended recipient to classify as phone hacking.

He will end up going down as being more ineffective as Neil Kinnock and by jumping on bandwagons such as phone hacking that no one outside the Westminster bubble cares about he really needs to be taught a lesson about how the public in this country view the EU.

Other unhelpful stories such as the phone hacking scandal were dismissed as «codswallop» which had been «cooked up by the Labour party.»

Although the introduction of the UK Bribery Act has no doubt improved the UK's ranking since 2010, recent events such as the phone hacking scandal have shown that there are still too many areas of corruption vulnerability in the UK public sector.

When perceived failures of a successor, such as the phone hacking scandal, are very public, they can be very hard for the successor to live down.

Not exact matches

The younger son of the media tycoon stepped down as the chairman of the - then BSkyB in 2012, forced out by his links to a scandal at the family's now - defunct News of the World newspaper which, among many other ethical outrages, hacked a murdered schoolgirl's phone in a search for its next story on the case, temporarily misleading the police and the girl's family into thinking she was still alive.

James Murdoch, the son of billionaire media mogul Rupert, is to return as the chairman of the U.K.'s biggest pay - TV company Sky Plc (skyay), four years after a phone - hacking scandal forced him out, regaining his grip on a group that now spans five European countries and is growing strongly.

LONDON (AP)-- Rebekah Brooks, the loyal lieutenant of Rupert Murdoch, resigned Friday as chief executive of his embattled British newspapers, becoming the biggest casualty so far in the phone hacking scandal at a now - defunct Sunday tabloid.

Big Idea: Likely to be looking for a new role now that she will be stepping down from Shine, the independent TV production company she founded after a successful but tempestuous spell as No. 2 at her father's U.K. satellite broadcaster BSkyB and then sold to 21st Century Fox in 2011; now being merged with Big Brother - maker Endemol and American Idol producer Core Media; seen as more business - proven than Lachlan and not phone hacking - tainted like James.

The newspaper is closing down amid an expanding police investigation of phone hacking into missing girls and grieving families as well as celebrities, and the alleged press bribery of police officers for information.

Drivers, though, have been using hacked phones in order to act as a driver as well as a passenger in order to trick Uber into believing that they dropped off a passenger and avail on their bonuses.

I watched open mouthed as the news went from Milly Dowler's phone being hacked to Rupert Murdoch being custard pied, reeled from Anders Brevik's killing...

Her claim that she only discovered about the Milly Dowler phone - hacking case when everybody else did was tough for MPs to argue with, as it was so uncompromising.

The deputy prime minister did not hold back as he assessed the 2006 probe into phone - hacking - which failed to notify him that his phone had been accessed 44 times.

Ofcom announced that is willing to intervene in Rupert Murdoch's attempt to gain control of BSkyB today, as the phone - hacking scandal threatened to inflict even more damage.

The Metropolitan police has blamed its focus on counter-terrorism after a judicial review condemned its original phone - hacking investigation as unlawful.

The highly unusual move comes amid mounting controversy over the phone - hacking scandal, with the prime minister criticised for going on a trade trip to South Africa as the Met commissioner resigned and Rebekah Brooks was arrested.

Mr Lewis is also calling for a full independent inquiry into the conduct of the British press as a result of the phone hacking scandal, in which News Corporation is heavily implicated.

Thousands of families have had to endure the violation of knowing that a hack was listening down the phone as they went through the darkest moments of their life.

Its legal representative at the inquiry, Neil Garnham QC, told Lord Justice Leveson that critics of the police were in danger of «looking at this through the wrong end of the telescope», as it was far from clear private investigator Glenn Mulcaire's notes that a large number of people were victims of phone - hacking.

The Met failed to contradict News International's public claims that phone - hacking went beyond one rogue reporter at the News of the World, as they claimed at the time.

Why should we believe News International on this as opposed to phone - hacking.

Whatever the reason, the news will come as a further blow to Mr Murdoch, who has watched his global media empire come under attack on several fronts since the scandal over alleged phone - hacking at the News of the World hit the front pages.

That's likely to focus on phone - hacking (it's the only show in town) as Ed Miliband tries to pin some of the bad coverage onto David Cameron.

They defended Llewellyn's decision to stop any discussion of phone - hacking between Yates and Cameron as operationally sound (correct) but misunderstood the argument that this situation only pertained because of Cameron's error in hiring Coulson in the first place.

«As the minister responsible for media policy in this country, it is disappointing that Jeremy Hunt has had so little to say on the phone hacking scandal,» Mr Lewis added.

The abandoned takeover bid will not end the phone - hacking scandal, however, as questions continue to be asked over whether Mr Murdoch is a «fit and proper» person to own a media outlet.

By the next day, Labour MPs were as unconvinced by their leader as they were before phone - hacking while a much - hyped public Q&A event provided yet more material for his critics to comment on how odd he is.

The subsequent spanking coming their way may be even more epic this time, as allegations fly of a high - level conspiracy in the original phone - hacking investigations and substantial pay offs from News of the World hacks.

The phrase, who acts as a shorthand for the difficulties of those on modest and medium incomes during the austerity drive, beat «Arab Spring», «occupy», «phone - hacking» and «podcasting» for the nomination.

Revelations about the snooping activities of GCHQ - which saw diplomats» emails reportedly hacked and their phone call activity monitored by a team of 45 analysts - come after US whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed the UK could have benefited from an American snooping programme known as «Prism».

Rupert Murdoch's efforts to limit the damage of the phone - hacking scandal by closing down the News of the World appeared to have failed today, as the row deepened significantly.

Ed Miliband tried to muster residual anger over MPs» expenses and the banking crash as he sought to accelerate the momentum of the phone - hacking scandal in a speech later.

Ken, you were stitched up, but you are dealing with a press pack that didn't see phone hacking as unethical so what did you expect.

The coalition is enduring its worst approval ratings as the phone - hacking scandal continues - but Labour is struggling to capitalise.

Duncan Campbell, Mark Field, Chris Bryant, Yvette Cooper: As John Yates and former senior police officers give evidence to MPs on phone hacking, four writers give their verdict

The comedian and activist, also known as Jonnie Marbles, was convicted for assault and «causing harassment, alarm or distress» after he threw the polystrene plate covered in shaving foam at the end of the Commons Select Committee's hearing into phone hacking at News International.

The potentially damaging admission came two days after Mr Murdoch's son, James, quit as chairman of Sky News's parent BSkyB, in an attempt to limit the spread of the phone - hacking scandal that has already forced the closure of one of Rupert Murdoch's main British newspapers, News Of The World.

In July 2011, following the revelation that the News of the World had paid private investigators to hack into the phones of Milly Dowler, as well as the families of murder victims and deceased servicemen, Miliband called for News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks to resign, urged David Cameron to establish a public, judge - led inquiry into the scandal, and announced that he would force a Commons vote on whether to block the News International bid for a controlling stake in BSkyB.

She confirmed media reports that he had sent her a consoling message after she was forced to resign from her job as chief executive of News International at the height of the phone - hacking scandal last year.

Andy Coulson and his fellow defendants are fiercely criticised by a judge, as the phone - hacking trial ends with prison sentences

James Murdoch resigned as executive chairman of News International this afternoon, as the phone - hacking scandal claimed its most senior scalp yet.

Follow our live coverage of a historic day in parliament, as leading figures in the phone - hacking scandal face questions from MPs.

Last year the emerging phone - hacking scandal was simply too big to be contained as one entry in this chart, but this time around we've decided it can just about be crammed into a single judicial inquiry - sized box.

Coulson faces the same charges on phone - hacking and two counts of conspiring to make payments to public officials, as does Clive Goodman, the newspaper's royal editor.

The prime minister David Cameron announced on 6 July 2011 that a public inquiry, known as the Leveson Inquiry, would look into phone hacking and police bribery by the News of the World, consider the wider culture and ethics of the British newspaper industry and that the Press Complaints Commission would be replaced «entirely».

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[217][218] She began by calling the practice of phone hacking at the newspaper she edited as «pretty horrific».