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A mother and son injured in a fatal speedboat accident in Cornwall, which claimed the life of a BSkyB executive, are being treated for “life changing” leg injuries, police say.
David Cameron is standing by his Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt despite claims that he misled Parliament over his handling of News Corporation’s bid for BSkyB.
Business secretary Vince Cable tells the Leveson Inquiry of ‘veiled threats’ against his party if he made the ‘wrong decision’ over News Corporation’s bid to takeover BSkyB.
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt pledges to give the Leveson inquiry all private texts and emails he sent to his special adviser, as pressure grows for an inquiry into his handling of the BSkyB bid.
Jeremy Hunt comes under pressure to resign after James Murdoch tells the Leveson inquiry the culture secretary secretly supported News Corporation’s BSkyB bid and leaked information to the Murdochs.
James Murdoch resigns as chairman of BSkyB, saying he does not want to become a “lightning rod” for the company because of ongoing investigations into News International.
Jon Snow
Rebekah Brooks or no, James Murdoch or no, anti-takeover-MPs or no, Rupert Murdoch will do whatever it takes to clinch the BSkyB deal. And history suggests he’s got a very good shot, writes Jon Snow.
David Cameron joins the Liberal Democrats in support of Labour’s motion calling on Rupert Murdoch to drop his takeover of BSkyB in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal.
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has withdrawn its bid to take over BSkyB. News Corp CEO Chase Carey said it had become “too difficult to progress in this climate”.
Rupert Murdoch has been urged to abandon his takeover bid for BSkyB after it emerged that all three main parties will back a call for him to drop his plans.
Rupert Murdoch withdraws his BSkyB takeover bid as David Cameron vows to end the “ugly chapter” of phone hacking. Here’s how the day unfolded.
Gary Gibbon
Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon looks at whether political opposition to Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB bid marks its death-knell.
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.
So here’s the dilemma for David Cameron : do you let it through, strengthen the Murdoch empire and take a political battering for being their poodle or do you block it, alienate the Sun and Times newspapers and make a mockery of your own words to date on media plurality tests in the hope that the electorate (vast numbers of which still buy Murdoch newspapers and watch Sky TV) will thank you for it?
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.