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First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 1 reports

Guidelines on police friendships with journalists a 'top-down, paranoid, defensive over-reaction'

Sandra Laville giving evidence to the Leveson InquiryA leading national press crime reporter has attacked 'paranoid' new police guidelines recommending that officers declare personal relationships with journalists.During a debate on Radio 4’s Media Show, ... [Published Press Gazette - 17 hours ago]

Entities: guidelines, Friendship, Operation Elveden, Association of Chief Police Officers, Police

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

BBC British Broadcasting Corp

Top BBC Presenter Embroiled in Police Corruption Scandal

No end in sight for the scandal-hit BBC: now Today programme veteran John Humphrys has confessed to bribing a police officer… with a bottle of whisky as a 17-year-old reporter. Humphrys has finally come clean over how he was the mastermind behind the ... [Published Guy Fawkes' blog - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Police Corruption, BBC British Broadcasting Corp, John Humphrys

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 7 reports

Former immigration centre worker arrested by police investigating payments by journalists

A former employee at an immigration centre today became the 65th person to be arrested by police investigating bribery allegations involving UK journalists.The 40-year-old man was arrested at his home in Slough, Berkshire , at 6am on suspicion of corruption, ... [Published Press Gazette - May 15 2013]

Entities: Immigration, Police, Operation Elveden, Investigation

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

65th Person Arrested In Operation Elveden

Met detectives investigating suspected corruption have arrested a former immigration centre employee.Officers from Operation Elveden arrested the 40-year-old man at his home in Slough, Berkshire, around 06:00 this morning (Wednesday).- - - - - -- - - ... [Published Build.co.uk - May 15 2013]

Entities: Operation Elveden, Arrests, Slough, Corruption

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 19 reports

Sun journalist charged with bribing tax official

LONDON, May 15 (RAPSI) - Britain's prosecutors say The Sun's Whitehall editor Clodagh Hartley has been charged over a conspiracy to pay thousands of pounds worth of bribes to a press officer of the British government's tax department.Prosecutors believe ... [Published RAPSI - May 15 2013]

Entities: Bribery, Gregor McGill, Taxes

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Sun Whitehall editor Clodagh Hartley is to be charged under Operation Elveden.

Former Sun Whitehall editor Clodagh Hartley and a HMRC press officer are to be charged under Operation Elveden, it is reported. ... [Published PoliticsHome - May 14 2013]

Entities: Operation Elveden

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 18 reports

Rupert Murdoch

UK ex-cop jailed for selling story to Murdoch tabloid

LONDON: A former British policeman was jailed for 10 months on Thursday for selling a story to Rupert Murdoch’s top-selling tabloid The Sun and trying to sell other information about headline-grabbing cases.James Bowes, 30, was sentenced at London’s Old ... [Published DAWN Group - May 10 2013]

Entities: Rupert Murdoch, United Kingdom, Peter Andre, Operation Elveden, Katie Price

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 15 reports

Pharmacy assistant in court over Sun cash probe

aA SOUTH Yorkshire pharmacy assistant who worked for the Ministry of Defence has appeared in court following Scotland Yard’s probe into alleged corrupt payments by journalists. Tracey Bell, 34, of Co-Operative Street, in Goldthorpe, appeared before Westminster ... [Published Yorkshire Post - May 09 2013]

Entities: John Hardy, Magistrates Court, Westminster, Tracey Bell

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 6 reports

Brooks bodyguard on conspiracy charge

A BODYGUARD for former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks is to be charged with conspiring to hide computers from police investigating phone hacking and corrupt payments to public officials.David Johnson will be charged with conspiracy ... [Published Herald Scotland - May 04 2013]

Entities: Rebekah Brooks, Conspiracy, David Johnson

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 8 reports

UPDATED: Two arrested in Operation Elveden corrupt payments probe

Two people were arrested this morning by police investigating allegations of inappropriate payments to police and public officials. A 36-year-old woman was arrested at around 6am at her home address in Tower Hamlets for suspected conspiracy to commit ... [Published London 24 - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Operation Elveden, Criminal Law, Conspiracy, Operation Weeting, Bail

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

Robert Redford calls for more Woodward and Bernsteins. Unfortunately, in the post-Leveson climate, Deep Throat would probably be arrested as part of Operation Elveden

It's good to see that Robert Redford has called for a revival of investigative journalism. He's just made a documentary about the Watergate scandal called All the President's Men Revisited and says "we need a lot of people like Woodward and Bernstein" ... [Published News » Politics - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Robert Redford, Deep Throat, Operation Elveden

First reported Apr 24 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 5 reports

Sun’s royal editor, Duncan Larcombe, charged over Sandhurst payments

The royal editor of The Sun newspaper has been charged over allegations that he paid more than £23,000 for stories about the Royal Family and Sandhurst military academy. Duncan Larcombe, 37, is due to face court alongside John Hardy, 43, who served as ... [Published The Independent - Apr 24 2013]

Entities: John Hardy, Prince Harry, Mike Darcey, Operation Elveden

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...criminals in 'same bracket' College of Policing says forces should name suspects when charged, but not when arrested ACPO media chief Andy Trotter: "This is not secret justice or secret arrests, but an effort to set clear standards" Tags: Guardian Police Operation Elveden

Guidelines on police friendships with journalists a 'top-down, paranoid, defensive over-reaction' [Published Press Gazette - 17 hours ago]

"We will not accept wrongdoing within our businesses and take these allegations seriously," the company said on Thursday. "In addition to co-operating with the police we have asked external lawyers to investigate all the allegations that have been made against our employees. It is too soon to know how these matters will progress and further updates will be made if there are any significant developments."

Trinity Mirror: too soon to know outcome of ph. . . [Published Equities.com - May 16 2013]

"It is alleged that between March 30, 2008 and July 15, 2011, The Sun newspaper paid ?17,475 to Jonathan Hall, mostly via Marta Bukarewicz, in exchange for the unauthorized disclosure of information obtained as a result of his employment with HMRC" Gregor McGill said

Sun journalist charged with bribing tax official [Published RAPSI - May 15 2013]

It is alleged that between 30 March 2008 and 15 July 2011 the Sun paid £17,475 to Hall, mostly via Bukarawicz, for "unauthorised disclosure of information obtained as a result of his employment with HMRC"

Whitehall editor of Sun arrested , faces £17,475 charge [Published The Drum - May 14 2013]

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Guidelines on police friendships with journalis... [Published Press Gazette - 17 hours ago]
Top BBC Presenter Embroiled in Police Corruptio... [Published Guy Fawkes' blog - 18 hours ago]
Trinity Mirror: too soon to know outcome of ph.... [Published Equities.com - May 16 2013]
Former immigration centre worker arrested by po... [Published Press Gazette - May 15 2013]
Former immigration centre worker arrested at hi... [Published Slough and Langley Observer - May 15 2013]
Operation Elveden: former immigration centre wo... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 15 2013]
65th Person Arrested In Operation Elveden [Published Build.co.uk - May 15 2013]
Worker arrested in payments probe [Published West Sussex Today - May 15 2013]
Former immigration centre worker arrested in Op... [Published Slough Express - May 15 2013]
Ex-immigration centre employee held [Published BBC - May 15 2013]
Immigration worker arrested in corruption inves... [Published itv.com - May 15 2013]
Sun journalist charged with bribing tax official [Published RAPSI - May 15 2013]
HMRC press officer charged under Operation Elveden [Published Accountancy Age - May 15 2013]
Operation Elveden: HMRC press officer to be cha... [Published Tax Journal - May 14 2013]
Whitehall editor of Sun arrested , faces £17,4... [Published The Drum - May 14 2013]
Sun reporter, press officer charged in British ... [Published Channel NewsAsia - May 14 2013]
HMRC insider leaked Budget secrets to The Sun [Published Accountancy Live - May 14 2013]
HMRC press officer charged over bribes [Published Economia - May 14 2013]
Sun reporter, press officer charged in UK [Published MSN New Zealand - May 14 2013]
CPS charges HMRC worker over bungs [Published Insolvency News - May 14 2013]
Sun's Whitehall editor to be charged under Oper... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 14 2013]
Sun's Clodagh Hartley charged with paying HMRC ... [Published Press Gazette - May 14 2013]
Sun journalist and civil servant charged in pay... [Published London Evening Standard - May 14 2013]
TRIO TO FACE PAYMENTS PROBE CHARGES [Published Daily Star - May 14 2013]
Sun journalist Clodagh Hartley, HMRC press offi... [Published The Drum - May 14 2013]
Operation Elveden: Three people from London, in... [Published London 24 - May 14 2013]
Sun journalist and press officer for HMRC face ... [Published The Independent - May 14 2013]
Trio to face payments probe charges [Published Lancashire Telegraph - May 14 2013]
Sun journalist charged over payments [Published BBC - May 14 2013]
Sun Whitehall editor Clodagh Hartley is to be c... [Published PoliticsHome - May 14 2013]

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Top BBC Presenter Embroiled in Police Corruptio... [Published Guy Fawkes' blog - 18 hours ago] No end in sight for the scandal-hit BBC: now Today programme veteran John Humphrys has confessed to bribing a police officer… with a bottle of whisky as a 17-year-old reporter. Humphrys has finally come clean over how he was the mastermind behind the ...
Celebrity arrests: where should we draw the lin... [Published Politics: Politics blog \| guardian.co.uk - May 08 2013] A string of arrests since the Jimmy Savile scandal may mean we are guilty of judging the past by the standards of the present It's never the right day to make this point. But many people are now being arrested over allegations of varying seriousness ...
Robert Redford calls for more Woodward and Bern... [Published News » Politics - Apr 25 2013] It's good to see that Robert Redford has called for a revival of investigative journalism. He's just made a documentary about the Watergate scandal called All the President's Men Revisited and says "we need a lot of people like Woodward and Bernstein" ...
Phone-hacking probes may have copped names from... [Published Media: Media Monkey \| guardian.co.uk - Apr 11 2013] All this talk about the provenance of Operation True Blue, the code name for the plans for Margaret Thatcher 's funeral, reminded Monkey of the story, perhaps apocryphal, behind Scotland Yard's decision to name its inquiries into alleged phone hacking ...
More Dirt Comes News Corp’s Way and 2 Media Sto... [Published Wall St. Cheat Sheet - Mar 20 2013] DirecTV ( NASDAQ:DTV ): The company has entered into an agreement with Univision Communications, pursuant to which DirecTV is to carry Univision’s broadcast stations, network feeds for Univision, and UniMÃ¡s, and the leading Spanish-language cable ...