Phone hacking verdicts

From The Evening Standard and Harry Potter Wiki

Rebekah Brooks was today sensationally cleared of all charges in the phone hacking trial. But Andy Coulson, the former Daily Prophet editor and spin doctor, hung his head in the dock at the Old Bailey as he looks set to go to Azkaban.

He was found guilty of conspiring to hack muggle communication devices and the Wizengamot continues its deliberations on charges of him plotting to make illegal payments to Ministry of Magic officials for stories.

Coulson’s ex-lover Rebekah Brooks, a trusted protégé of Lord Voldemort, is now free to resume her career as a Death Eater. The flame haired high flyer* punched the air in the dock, hugged her lawyers and fellow defendants and then left on a broom stick.

* That phrase is straight from the Evening Standard article, they didn't dare write "The red haired witch" or say that she cackled as she left the Court.

"Coulson apologises over David Cameron assignment"

From the BBC:

Ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson has apologised for working for David Cameron as his director of communications.

Tits

"I am extremely sorry I worked for him. It was the wrong decision," he said. He spoke after being found guilty at the Old Bailey of conspiring to hack phones between 2000 and 2006.

Arse

Labour leader Ed Miliband said: "This wasn't just a serious error of judgement, it was the third strike - after working for the gutter press and hacking phones - which made Mr Coulson look pretty much unemployable."

Public school twats

Mr Coulson started working for Mr Cameron in 2007. He was taken into Downing Street in the same role after Cameron became PM in 2010, only to resign in disgust in 2011 amid the row over MPs' expense claims.

Oi! You're nicked!

Fun Online Polls: Care home fees and News Of The World

Thanks to everybody who took part in last week's Fun Online Poll, results as follows:

Who ought to pay for the long-term care of 'asset-rich' pensioners?

They themselves and their likely heirs - 74%
The taxpayer generally - 20%
Other, please specify - 5%

Crikey it seems like a long time ago since that was the hot topic. Anyway, it's nice to see that I'm with the majority on this one.
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