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BRITAIN’S CROWN Prosecution Service has announced it is bringing charges against former News of the World editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson.
Brooks resigned as the head of News International in 2011 in the wake of the phone hacking scandal that forced the closure of its News of the World tabloid.
Coulson, who edited the paper from 2003 to 2007, served as a press advisor to British Prime Minister David Cameron before the hacking scandal forced him to resign from that position.
Six other people were named in the CPS charges today including the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire. Mulcaire was previously convicted of intercepting the phone messages of members of the royal household; his co-conspirator former News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman was also jailed.
Earlier this summer, the Supreme Court ordered Mulcaire to reveal who had ordered him to hack phones and listen in on voicemail messagse.
Prosecutors have accused Brooks, Coulson, Stuart Kuttner, Greg Miskiw, Ian Edmondson, Neville Thurlbeck and James Weatherup of conspiring together and with Glenn Mulciar, Clive Goodman “and persons unknown” to illegally intercept communications during their transmission.
As well as forcing the NoTW to close after over 160 years in publication, the scandal led to criminal investigations and to the establishment of a judicial inquiry into the relationship between Britain’s media, the police and politicians. That inquiry – chaired by Lord Justice Leveson – has heard testimony from celebrities, the parents of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, Prime Minister Cameron, Rupert Murdoch, Rebekah Brooks, and a number of other politicians, journalists and editors.
One of the charges being brought against Brooks, Coulson, Kuttner, Mulcaire, Muskiw and Thurlbeck concerns the interception of voicemail messages of Millie Dowler.
Miskiw, Edmondson and Weatherup are also accused of conspiring with Mulcaire to intercept the voicemail messages of Jude Law and persons associated with him, Sadie Frost and Sienna Miller.
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Anyone I’ve spoken to in an SME claims they are struggling to get loans out of banks. Primetime…investigate
i agree get primetime to investigate these muppets and bring the truth to the surface
So it’s the sme’s fault for not applying. Vague memories of my bank sending me preapproved loans without any request for a loan oh how the tables have turned
If you lay the terms, then you can determine the eligibility. The banks are blanking SME’s, they are just giving themselves a plausible cover story. SME’s represent 90% of Irish businesses, the banks couldn’t care less about them.
Thats just bowlix that, the banks are putting up stupid conditions on SME’s to meet the criteria and using any excuse not to give out money.
I thought that the money we used to bail out the banks was to help stimulate lending? Utter BS.
Absolute BS is right.
The CRO have become an unwitting mouthpiece for the banks.
I needed â
Why don’t I believe them?
I’d imagine a lot of small businesses know that it’s like trying to get blood from a stone and realise that it’s not worth the time or resources to apply for a loan they know they won’t get.
Small business owners everywhere must be livid over this crap.
i went in looking for a loan and was told their not a hope been with the bank 35 years never miss a payment
Its never the bank fault is it…..
Also the bank managers are telling customers not to ask for a loan because you will not get it, how many of these are counted in this report??
Out of interest…. what do you mean by ‘stupid and punitive requirements’?
the Credit Review Office charges €100 to review a case, if a small business is looking for a loan they dont have the money to be shelling out €100 for a over paid credit review officer to check th case. this is why alot of loans are not reported on.
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