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All the latest on the News of the World phone-hacking scandal which has engulfed Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation media empire.
• Paul Myners calls for James Murdoch to be deposed by BSkyB shareholders
• NI denies payouts for departing executives to top '£8.5m'
• Hacking scandal becoming a damaging political issue in US
• Yvette Cooper calls for immediate review into police corruption
• Shockwaves following resignation of Les Hinton
• Predictions that James Murdoch could be next
• Hugh Grant and Jemima Khan sue Scotland Yard
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11.00 That's all for tonight. Thank you for joining us.
10.05 Labour leader Ed Miliband has demanded the dismantling of Rupert Murdoch's UK media empire with the introduction of new rules governing ownership of the press and broadcasting companies.
Mr Murdoch, he claimed in an interview with the Observer, has "too much power over British public life".
"I think it's unhealthy because that amount of power in one person's hands has clearly led to abuses of power within his organisation. If you want to minimise the abuses of power then that kind of concentration of power is frankly quite dangerous."
21.32 Meanwhile, the career of Sir Paul Stephenson is reported to be hanging in the balance after it emerged that the Metropolitan Police Commissioner enjoyed a five-week stay for free at the luxurious Champneys health farm in Tring which was promoted by the former deputy editor of the News of the World.
A Met spokesman said the treatment he received there after suffering a broken leg was paid for by Scotland Yard. He denied any suggestion of impropriety.
21.25 The Sunday Telegraph's front page reports "New body blows for Murdoch" tonight.
20.30 More apologies on Sunday: News International has once again placed advertisements in the national press to continue its apology over the News of the World hacking scandal.
On Saturday, Rupert Murdoch signed an apology which stated boldly "We are sorry." On Sunday, the NI ad is headlined: "Putting right what's gone wrong."
The ad states News International's intentions in the aftermath of "hackgate". These include "Full co-operation with the Police", "Compensation for those affected"; and being "Committed to change".
It concludes that "It may take some time for us to rebuild trust and confidence, but we are determined to live up to the expectations of our readers, colleagues and partners.
"We will not stop until these matters are resolved."
19.00 The New York Times has published a detailed summary of the questionable relationship between News International and senior officers at Scotland Yard.
Headlined "Taint From Tabloids Rubs Off on a Cozy Scotland Yard", Don Van Natta Jnr's report can only serve to further damage the reputation of both the Metropolitan Police and Rupert Murdoch's company across the Atlantic.
18.15 News International tonight denied earlier reports that it was set to pay millions of pounds in severance payments to Rebekah Brooks and other executives who have recently left the company.
A spokesman for the company said: "This story is speculative and wrong."
17.55 Hugh Grant and the heiress and activist Jemima Khan are suing the Metropolitan Police over the force's failure to tell them they were victims of hacking by the News of the World, it emerged tonight.
Suing the police will allow Khan and Grant - who have become leading critics of News International - to obtain evidence showing their mobile phones were targeted.
16.45 There are rumours that tomorrow's New York Times will contain something "juicy" about the News of the World scandal and that it could be relevant to claims 9/11 families were hacked.
Rumor: New York Times has something juicy tomorrow on #NOTW. Could be 9/11 connection.less than a minute ago via TweetDeck 
MichaelWolffNYC
16.20 Paul Myners, the former treasury minister, has called for BSkyB shareholders to depose James Murdoch as chairman at the company's next annual meeting.
Speaking in the House of Lords yesterday Baron Myners said shareholders should end the "hereditary principle" that gives the Murdochs control over the broadcaster.
He told the Lords: "All directors of BSkyB should stand for re-election at the AGM this summer, including Mr. James Murdoch.
"There is an opportunity here for the great investment institutions to show they've had enough with the way the Murdochs dominate BskyB."
15.55 More from Rupert Murdoch's biographer, the Vanity Fair writer Michael Wolff, this time referring to the angry remark by Elisabeth Murdoch about Rebekah Brooks, first reported in the Telegraph.
"...She said this on Sunday night at a book party for Philip Gould hosted by Matthew Freud and James Harding."
15.15 News International is set to pay as much as £8.5 million in severance packages for executives who have quit the company in the past few days, it is being reported.
Rebekah Brooks is estimated to have left her job as chief executive, with a payoff of £3.5m, while Colin Myler, the final editor of the News of the World, is understood to be in line for £2m. Two of the company's senior lawyers, Tom Crone and Jon Chapman, will receive an estimated £1.5m each.
The departure of Les Hinton, Rupert Murdoch's right hand man and the chief executive of Dow Jones, will add to the bill.
15.05 Will the dirty business of journalism survive hackgate? That's the question posed by Martin Bright in his Spectator blog.
As one employed in that sometimes dishonourable but often vital trade, I certainly hope so.
Bright ends on this optimistic, though sobering, note:
14.50 America is really waking up to the News Corp situation: "Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal becomes US political issue", says the respected US website Politico.com.
In the piece, by Ben Smith, it says: "The scandal has handed talking points to Democrats and a political cudgel to President Barack Obama's re-election campaign, which is bracing for what's become the usual battle with Fox News... Mainstream American politicians of both parties have generally avoided open combat with Murdoch, with Bill and Hillary Clinton famously seeking to court him and reach an accommodation. Even Obama, who has warred openly with Fox at times, has more recently pulled back, even after seven-figure contributions to groups tied to the Republican Party were reported last year. But Murdoch, wounded, suddenly appears mortal, and his enemies are emboldened."
Is it now time to stop speculation over will he sell or won't he? From the same Politico.com article: a comment from Lou Colasuonno, a former New York Post editor, who worked for Murdoch in the 1980s - "The newspapers will leave the building when Rupert leaves the building." So that's that then.
14.45 There is an interesting examination in The Washington Post of the allegation that families of the 9/11 victims may have been hacked, a claim which catapulted the scandal across the Atlantic and has now prompted the launch of an FBI investigation into the matter.
14.11 The #shakespeare4murdoch hashtag on Twitter is really taking off. John Prescott offers: "NoW is the Hinton of our discontent", "Hackbeth" and "The Taming of the Screws". Other gems include "Is this a blagger I see before me?", "I come to bury Murdoch, not to praise him".
But the most erudite must come from Lynn Jackson, in Bournemouth: "And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered hack", as adapted from King Henry VI.
13.15 Today's no-holds barred leader column in the Daily Telegraph - Phone hacking: A scandal that has diminished Britain -has prompted much discussion, with speculation that it will cause deep concern at No. 10.
Here's a taste of what the Twittersphere thinks:
RT @oflynnexpress Daily Tel leader is truly thunderous & must have caused a gulp amongst those around the Prime Minister http://t.co/bjoqNmEless than a minute ago via TweetDeck 
TomChivers
And here, from Paul Mason, BBC Newsnight's economics editor:
Telegraph unleashes 1922 style fury on establishment http://t.co/S2y8DtI - Carlton Club, anyone?less than a minute ago via Twitter for iPhone 
paulmasonnews
12.50
The British journalist Geoffrey Wheatcroft has written a piece about the political ramifications of the hacking scandal for the influential US political magazine The New Republic. It is noticeable that there are an increasing number of stories about the affair running in US publications, as the impact of the hacking scandal on News Corp's fortunes grows by the day.
11.50 Here's a nice example of the new #Shakespeare4Murdoch hashtag running on Twitter:
#Shakespeare4Murdoch For never was a story of more woe/Than this of Murdoch and his CEOless than a minute ago via Twitter for iPhone 
MitchBenn
11.42 Todays FT pulls no punches with its judgement that the phone hacking affair "marks one of the lowest points in the long history of the Met Police".
It quotes Chris Bryant MP as stating: "It feels as if the News of the World turned the Metropolitan Police into a partly owned subsidiary."
11.20 Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has called on Theresa May to order an immediate "fast review" into police corruption and regulation rather than waiting for the judicial inquiry into phone hacking to report.
Writing for the PoliticsHome, Ms Cooper also calls for reform of the Independent Police Complaints Authority, saying it has failed to act over police malpractice, just as the Press Complaints Commission failed over newspaper regulation.
She criticises her opposite number for inaction over the scandal, saying that "the Home Secretary’s silence on the entire hacking affair has been deafening".
11.15
Jeremy Clarkson, the Top Gear presenter, mounts a robust defence of Rupert Murdoch, Rebekah Brooks and tabloid journalism in general in his column in Murdoch owned Sun newspaper.
Despite himself being tabloid fodder on more than one occasion he writes:
"A man who loves newspapers very nearly as much...as you do."
09.45
Here is Rupert Murdoch's full page mea culpa advert which appeared in today's newspapers. Humble pie doesn't come in much bigger slices.
09.30 William Hague, the foreign secretary, has defended David Cameron's decision to invite Andy Coulson to Chequers after his resignation as Downing Street director of communications, claiming it was a "normal, human thing to do".
Mr Hague, a former News of the World columnist, said he was not embarrassed "in any way" by the Government's relationship with News International executives and defended the Prime Minister's decision to entertain Mr Coulson, the former News of the World editor, at his Buckinghamshire retreat in March.
Mr Hague told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "In inviting Andy Coulson back the Prime Minister has invited someone back to thank him for his work, he's worked for him for several years, that is a normal, human thing to do, I think it shows a positive side to his character."
09.15 Rupert Murdoch ignored earlier advice from senior News Corporation figures to accept Rebekah Brooks' initial offer of resignation, according to the New York Times.
It says Rupert Murdoch "has become an increasingly isolated figure, not only in Britain but within his own company".
"The departure in recent years of top executives who often provided a counterweight to his famous irascibility and stubbornness has left him surrounded by fewer people who can effectively question his decisions.
He initially rejected Ms. Brooks’s offer to resign from News International, his British subsidiary, despite advice to accept it from senior News Corporation executives, said people briefed on the company’s discussions.
08.45 This is how the front pages of today's newspapers - and yesterday's Evening Standard - capture the drama of the past 24 hours
08.30 Today's Daily Telegraph leader pulls no punches, crticising David Cameron's role in the crisis and asking whether Britain can still claim to be above corruption in light of the relationship between the police and the tabloid press. "Even in Palermo, this would raise eyebrows," it says.
08.10 In the light of Les Hilton's departure here's an intriguing Twitter prediction from Michael Wolff, Rupert Murdoch's biographer:
James Murdoch is next.less than a minute ago via TweetDeck
MichaelWolffNYC
08.05 Ben Bradshaw, Labour's culture secretary from 2009 to 2010, has written to the Guardian defending Gordon Brown's decision not to set up a judicial inquiry into phone hacking while he had the chance.
Mr Brown claimed in the House of Commons that he had effectively been prevented from doing so as a result of advice from his Cabinet secretary, Sir Gus O'Donnell.
Mr Bradshaw writes:
07.45 There is a thought provoking comment piece from Suzanne Moore in The Guardian - the paper that broke the phone hacking scandal - championing certain tabloid values and warning of the perils of any system of newspaper regulation dictated by celebrities, such as Steve Coogan and Hugh Grant. Here's a taste of what she says.
The spinning of this as a victory for decency by some wronged celebs was laughable and at times offensive. Steve Coogan is to my mind an utter genius but I don't want him regulating the press. I think Hugh Grant has made a little go a long way and I think Max Mosley is odd, to say the least. The replacing of an old media class by a new one is unedifying. Jemima Khan may have her heart in the right place but after one week's work experience on the New Statesman she was given an editorship at the Independent. That day many young journalism students wrote to me asking me why they were bothering with, you know, training. For some time I have watched the arrival of the new media class, rich, connected, unaccountable, but hey, let's not worry now. Ding dong! The witch is dead!
Brown's wounded howling means little. New Labour were so much at Murdoch's beck and call, their quick trips to Australia meant they had to knock themselves out with sleeping pills just to get through. Yet here pops up Alastair Campbell to lecture us on truth and ethics. Pass the sick bag. At the height of their powers, which great institution did New Labour attack? News International? No, the BBC. Remember that. Much of the press, too, were craven on Iraq, as they were on the City.
07.40 Good morning. Welcome to the live blog on the phone hacking scandal. Once again there have been several significant develpoments overnight. We'll be keeping you up to date with the latest on the crisis that has engulfed Rupert Murdoch and News International, as it happens today.
In the light of the dramatic resignation of Les Hinton, Rupert Murdoch's right hand man, on Friday night it might be worth kicking off with one of the jokes that has been doing the rounds recently: "Would the last person to leave News International please turn out the lights."
I'm sure Neil Kinnock in particular is chuckling at that one.
More shortly.
•Phone hacking scandal: July 15 as it happened
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• Phone hacking scandal: July 13 as it happened
• Phone hacking scandal: July 12 as it happened
• Phone hacking scandal: July 11 as it happened
• News of the World closed down: July 10 as it happened
• News of the World closed down: July 9 as it happened
• News of the World closed down: July 8, as it happened
• News of the World phone hacking: July 7, as it happened
• News of the World phone hacking: July 6, as it happened
• Milly Dowler News of the World phone hacking: July 5, as it happened
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