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The issue of Rupert Murdoch and his News Corporation is back on the front page. It hasn’t been far from it since he expressed the desire to take over the rest of BSkyB that he does not own.
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The Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt refers the takeover bid for BSkyB to the Competition Commission after News Corp withdraws plans to hive off Sky News.
Rupert Murdoch’s biographer tells Channel 4 News the tycoon “is in more trouble than he has ever been in” and questions News Corp’s entire future after another dramatic day in the phone-hack crisis.
All eyes turn to the arrival in the UK of News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch, who says his first priority is Rebekah Brooks, despite facing mounting pressure to drop his takeover bid for BSkyB.
News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch is expected to arrive in London to take charge of the growing crisis at News of the World, amid calls for a judge to lead an inquiry into the scandal.
Rupert Murdoch is due in London as the News of the World draws to a close its 168 years in print and a storm brews over News Corporation’s takeover bid for BSkyB.
News of the World editor Colin Myler tells staff they have made “enormous sacrifices” for their parent company News Corporation, as they prepare the tabloid’s last edition.
MPs call for Ofcom to launch an immediate investigation into whether News Corp executives are ‘fit and proper’ people to run BSkyB in the wake of the phone hacking scandal.
The Government says it is ready to accept the Murdoch-owned News Corporation takeover of BSkyB, but a Labour MP brands the move as a “seedy deal”.
The issue of Rupert Murdoch and his News Corporation is back on the front page. It hasn’t been far from it since he expressed the desire to take over the rest of BSkyB that he does not own.
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt gives News Corp more time to meet concerns over its bid to take over BSkyB, as MPs and the deal’s opponents tell Channel 4 News there are still questions to be answered.
The Prime Minister’s private dinner with News Corporation executives raises questions over his impartiality in the light of News Corp’s attempt to take over BSkyB, one MP tells Channel 4 News.
The Coalition has “bent over backwards” to keep Vince Cable in Government despite his comments that he had “declared war on Murdoch” over News Corp’s deal to take over BSkyB, writes Gary Gibbon.
The Coalition has “bent over backwards” to keep Vince Cable in Government despite his comments that he had “declared war on Murdoch” over News Corp’s deal to take over BSkyB, writes Gary Gibbon.
The Sun newspaper has reportedly stopped publishing photographs of topless women on page 3.
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