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Preezy wrote:Vote Reckless

lex-man wrote:So do we reckon that UKIP are falling apart then. They've lost their only MP it can't be too long until they totally implode.

Byline wrote:THE SUN newspaper ordered specialist data ‘blaggers’ to target every leading bone and intestinal cancer specialist in London in an attempt to obtain the confidential medical information of a seriously ill woman, the High Court has heard.

Two senior editorial staff used company emails to coordinate the systematic “trawl” of medical experts, which lawyers for alleged victims of phone hacking at the tabloid say showed a newsgathering culture “shocking in its level of intrusion”.

The paper’s aim was to learn intimate details of the unnamed woman’s battle with the disease by paying investigators to obtain her private health information so it could later be published, according to the claimants’ barrister David Sherborne.

The emails sent by Chief Foreign Correspondent Nick Parker to Head of News Chris Pharo on October 18, 2006, - when The Sun was selling more than 3.1m copies a day - emerged in hearings to establish how much of its own internal documentation should be disclosed ahead of a civil trial over alleged phone hacking.

In them, Mr Parker wrote: "Checks at St Mark's (Hospital) Harrow came up with no sign of X heiress (her name was removed by The Sun’s lawyers before disclosing the emails). Have gone back to contact seeking more info.”

He went on: “Blaggers (are) now attempting manual trawl of all top London specialists in bone cancer and intestinal cancers in the hope that we get lucky but will take time.”

The reference to blagging - using deception to obtain private information, a method of journalism justified only in cases of clear public interest - is potentially damaging to Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers (NGN) which is denying a range of allegations against its market-leading newspaper, including both illegal voicemail interception and unlawfully obtaining confidential phone billing data of members of the public.

Its solicitors, Clifford Chance, said in a statement: “NGN intends robustly to defend, in particular, allegations made in respect of The Sun.”

At the hearing, the company’s barrister, Anthony Hudson QC, did not comment on the alleged fraudulent acquisition of medical data.

Shadow wrote:Watching QT. Dianne Abbot is such a strawberry floating irritant.

Knoyleo wrote:

Shadow wrote:Watching QT. Dianne Abbot is such a strawberry floating irritant.

Tim Farron is actually coming across really well, too.

Shadow wrote:

Knoyleo wrote:

Shadow wrote:Watching QT. Dianne Abbot is such a strawberry floating irritant.

Tim Farron is actually coming across really well, too.

Yes he is. I think he's been practicing as his voice seems more measured and crisp. He used to sound a little whiny.

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:There's an EDL march right on my doorstep tomorrow it was planned to be in Derby but they've moved it to Birmingham because of the attack in London last month.

I went out during the last one and it was horrible. Vile, nasty banana splits walking around like they own the place with their tops off, drinking gooseberry fool beer from cans; helicopters overhead, heavy police presence and a general atmosphere of hatred.

Might see if I can get pictures for the thread. I could be GRcade's political correspondent, live from the scene .

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:Might see if I can get pictures for the thread. I could be GRcade's political correspondent, live from the scene .