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Is this good news for “Huhne out next” backers?

Is this good news for “Huhne out next” backers?

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Press Association via Yahoo News Police seek possession of speeding tape As trailed by Guido, the Sunday Times is reporting that it has been ordered by a judge to hand over to Essex Police a recording of Huhne and ex-wife Vicky Pryce discussing the speeding allegations – although the paper is said to be considering an appeal. If the police manage to obtain the tape, this could bring matters much further forward – will the tape bring new material to…

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Heath vs Wilson – the ten year battle

Heath vs Wilson – the ten year battle

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The documentary you cannot miss One of the great “must-watch” political documentaries of recent times was the on BBC4 channel on Wednesday night on the mighty tussle between two grammar school boys who went to Oxford and fought four general elections against other. Two of those elections were pivotal – 1970 when against all the odds and polling Heath won a majority and February 1974 when the Tories went to the country in the middle of the miners’ strike in…

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Who’ll prevail in the gagging order stand-off?

Who’ll prevail in the gagging order stand-off?

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Will the real losers be the judges? Several of the front pages are devoted to the super-injunction story and it looks as though we could see further developments I just wonder whether an MP or a peer will find a way of getting this latest case into the open today using parliamentary privilege in the way that details about the former RBS boss, Fred Goodwin, were revealed last week. We are in for an interesting few days. Mike Smithson

So are you backing Gordon….?

So are you backing Gordon….?

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DSK has now resigned as IMF head, and Hills have released their next IMF leader prices which are: Kemal Dervis, Turkey 5/2 Montek Singh Ahluwalia, India 5/1 Axel Weber, Germany 7/1 Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Singapore 8/1 Gordon Brown, UK 8/1 John Lipsky, USA 10/1 Mark Carney, Canada 10/1 Philipp Hildebrand, Switzerland 12/1 Peer Steinbruck, Germany 12/1 Stanley Fischer, Israel 16/1 Changyong Rhee, South Korea 16/1 Hyun Song Shin, South Korea 16/1 Trevor Manuel, South Africa 20/1 Christine Lagarde, France 20/1 Mohamed…

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What drew in the millions beyond the seas?

What drew in the millions beyond the seas?

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Do the royals enable Britain to still punch above its weight? When Bruno Mars sang in ‘Billionaire’ that he wanted to “be on the cover of Forbes magazine / smiling next to Oprah and the Queen”, there could be little doubt that of all the world’s queens regnant or consort his definite article applied to Her Britannic Majesty. Yesterday’s wedding provided proof once again of the enduring ability that British royalty has to engage not just the country but large…

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Will the focus now move onto other papers?

Will the focus now move onto other papers?

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BBC News And could this still damage Cameron? In a dramatic development this afternoon News International has apologised to several figures whose mobile phone mail-boxes are said to have been hacked into and at the same time set up a £20m fund to deal with compensation claims. The firm is clearly hoping that this will draw a line under the affair which has continued for nearly three years since the Guardian first reported on the story. Amongst those with political…

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Is The Sport’s demise its most newsworthy event?

Is The Sport’s demise its most newsworthy event?

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Daily Telegraph What does it say about the future of the printed newspaper? To describe the Daily and Sunday Sport as newspapers would be stretching a point. By the editor’s own admission, they were about sport, women and humour, even if they did have Lembit Opik writing a weekly politics column. So news that the group has gone tits up will not reverberate through the media in the same way as the demise of a more serious title would. But…

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