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By:
motley01
When: 15 May 12 22:31
Champayne Charlie and the wicked witch eh, lying through their teeth.
What else would you expect after she worked for that awful man, Murdoch.
No doubt the trusty sword of British justice will protect them.
By:
Anaglogs Daughter
When: 15 May 12 22:44
It's the end for racing's golden couple 05 May 2004

For more than 12 years, Old Etonian trainer Charlie Brooks and model-turned-TV-pundit Miriam Francome were racing's golden couple.
In a febrile - and highly competitive - world where marriages rarely last the course, their romance appeared to buck the trend.
Even when Brooks gave up training and Miriam - estranged wife of seventime National Hunt champion jockey John Francome - lost her job as a commentator when the Racing Channel folded 16 months ago, their relationship flourished.
So their friends will understandably be saddened by my revelation that the couple have quietly separated and that the handsome Brooks, 41, has moved out of his girlfriend's home at Great Shefford, near Lambourn, Berks.
After so long together, they are reluctant to talk of the reasons behind the split, but I understand that there is no third party involved and the move is described by friends as 'amicable'.
So amicable, in fact, that they were staying under the same roof in Newmarket at the weekend for the 2,000 Guineas - the first big race of the Flat season.
'Neither of them has anyone else in their lives,' I am told.
According to friends, their great love affair - which stunned racing aficionados because it came so soon after Miriam had walked out on Francome in 1991 - had 'simply run its course'.
Brooks has confirmed to friends that the relationship is over. 'Charlie spends most of his time in London these days because he is working for a sports management company, and the couple have drifted apart,' a close friend tells me.
Some feared that the age gap - Miriam, daughter of a Harley Street psychiatrist, is seven years Brooks' senior - would eventually undermine the relationship.
And, inevitably perhaps, racing circles are wondering whether she might return to Francome, from whom she was never divorced. This, I am assured, is wide of the mark. Indeed, Francome had no idea that Miriam and Charlie had parted until I informed him.
'It's absolutely news to me. I know nothing about them splitting up,' says the Channel 4 pundit, who has for seven years squired lissom mother-oftwo Tracey Bailey, 41, former wife of leading National Hunt trainer Kim Bailey.
Francome was devastated when his 15-year marriage to Miriam collapsed. She went home to live with her mother in Devon and it has always remained unclear precisely what went wrong.
He was even more upset when Miriam took up with Charlie, who was a longtime friend of them both.
So angry was Francome that he burned most of Miriam's clothes and reportedly dumped them in Charlie's racing yard.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/columnists/article-298882/Its-end-racings-golden-couple.html#ixzz1uye6OOxe
By:
wolfatthedoor
When: 15 May 12 22:44
georgebakerfanclub 15 May 12 20:13
What a complete waste of tax payers money. I don't give a toss if one horrid person spied on another horrid person as long as I don't have to pay for the lawyers to fill their pocket at my expense. People are living in poverty but all the dreadful politicians and lawyers can think about is scoring points and making money, they all should a be ashamed of themselves.


agree totally
and btw there are a lot more awful people than beccy and charlie knocking around who really do deserve to be locked up
some of them even who told lies that resulted in thousands of deaths and have got clean away with it
By:
Anaglogs Daughter
When: 15 May 12 22:47
Celebrity wedding: The Sun & the stars

What a wedding guest list – but how many people would recognise the happy couple?

Andrew Johnson and Matthew Bell http://www.independent.co.uk

Sunday 14 June 2009

In the tiny village of Churchill deep in the Oxfordshire countryside yesterday, the power brokers of British politics and media gathered with some of the best-known faces from the worlds of racing, society and fashion for the wedding of the year.


A party attended by Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Rupert Murdoch might normally see paparazzi swarming, hoping to catch an illicit glimpse of the powerful couple. Not so yesterday. Rebekah Wade, 41, the editor of The Sun, Britain's biggest-selling newspaper, knows too much to allow her wedding to former racing trainer and international playboy Charlie Brooks to reach the public eye. The couple had exchanged rings at a quiet ceremony at St Bride's church in Fleet Street on Friday with "only their mothers" attending.

Yesterday, a "media blackout" orchestrated by the PR expert Matthew Freud was in operation. His wife Elisabeth's father, Rupert Murdoch, whose News International Corporation owns The Sun, as well as Sky, flew in last week for the event. Other friends on the couple's guest list included Jeremy Clarkson and his wife Francie, in whose house Ms Wade and Mr Brooks met. Then there was the Carphone Warehouse founder, Charles Dunstone, Blur bassist Alex James and Viscountess Daventry, as well as the Osbornes, the singer Stevie Winwood and the former Mr Madonna, Guy Ritchie.

The event was a far cry from the Las Vegas wedding which saw Ms Wade hitched to the Eastenders actor Ross Kemp in 2002. Their divorce came through last March, and followed an episode in 2005 that saw Ms Wade held in the cells overnight after Mr Kemp alleged she had hit him following a drinking bout with the recently resigned David Blunkett.

Yesterday's eclectic guest list reflected the diversity of the couple's backgrounds. She is the grammar-school girl from Warrington who began her career as a secretary on the News of the World and became that paper's editor. Nicknamed variously Champagne Charlie and Looks Brooks, the groom, 46, has led a charmed life after leaving Eton, becoming a racehorse trainer after an accident ended his hopes of being a jockey. A regular of the society pages, he has been linked to, among others, Anna Wallace, one-time girlfriend of Prince Charles, Eimear Montgomerie, former wife of golfer Colin Montgomerie, Maureen Piggott, daughter of jockey Lester. and Miriam Francome, ex-wife of jockey John Francome.
By:
Anaglogs Daughter
When: 15 May 12 22:51
Chipping Norton; joy of my youth!
July 11th, 2011 |  Author: DBenson  http://dennisbenson.net/?p=2261

Great delight on the allotment this morning, and I am not referring merely to a record number of eggs or even the bright light in the sky. Some of my pals who bought the final edition of the News of the Screws did so in the hope that the sacked staff would include an attack on the whiter-than-white Rebekah Brooks, but they were initially disappointed, no great surprise since she had ordered a top-level scrutiny at the proof stage. What she didn’t think to do was to check the crossword. Yesterday afternoon Tom tackled the puzzle and, to his delight, gradually realised that the answers added up to abuse of the dear lady on an unprecedented scale! Clever!

Speaking from a personal angle what is not so clever is the sudden appearance amongst the headlines of the so-called ‘Chipping Norton set’. It may well be the first time you have heard the name of my favourite Cotswold (ish) little town. When I was a boy back in the 40s the greatest treat was an outing to Chipping Norton children’s home. At that time I was by compulsion a part of a floursihing Methodist chapel in Oxford, and a lot of effort was devoted to raising funds for the orphanage, as it was known then. Once a year it held a fete and along we went in a coach armed to the teeth with every copper we had scraped together.

Once the admittedly limited excitement of a fete was over, we would wander down into the picturesque town. I remember the broad accents, the friendly manner, the cosy shops. This, I decided, was the place I wanted to live in when I grew up. Of course it never happened, but to this day I think of the place with affection. At least I did until the Murdoch scandal broke and suddenly the little innocent haunt of my childhood became identified with ‘The Set’ or, as I gather the locals term it, the ‘Cameroons’.

Friends from the area tell me that David Cameron is to be seen regularly out riding with Rebekah Brooks. The now Prime Minister’s constituency home is just four miles from that of the chief executive a la Murdoch, and it was at her home that the now infamous Christmas party took place. She lives two miles from the town centre, in a luxury barn conversion, with her second husband, Old Etonian Charlie Brooks, the former jockey, horse trainer and now thriller writer. We now know that James Murdoch was also there for the get-together between the Camerons and Brooks. It was just after the party that Vince Cable, the business secretary and no fan of Rupert Murdoch’s, was relieved of his responsibility to decide on Murdoch’s attempt to take full control of BSkyB.

Ten minutes drive away lives Matthew Freud, the PR Guru, and his wife Elisabeth. They are at the heart of the ‘Set’ and are said to be immensely influential. Oh yes, Elisabeth is the daughter of Rupert Murdoch. A well know personality living nearby is Jeremy Clarkson, the ‘Top Gear’ presenter and columnist for The Sun. It was at his home that Elisabeth met her second husband, Charlie, an old pal of Cameron. In fact the prime minister turned up for the launch of his latest thriller. He was also happy to appear as ‘Top Gear’s’ The Stig in a video tribute at Clarkson’s 50th birthday party.

On Saturday the town held its festival but there was no sign of, to quote locals, the ‘Cameroons’. But several folk were happy to have their say. At the Chequers pub, David Hawker, suggested that the prime minister might want to “put some distance between himself and The Set. “It’s not ideal for the PM” was his verdict. Others are pretty annoyed at the way their beloved community has sprung to national notice. Don Davidson, a former mayor, said that “Chipping Norton should be known for real community spirit, not the outrageous things that have been taking place in Wapping”. The present mayor, Chris Butterworth, said that he would prefer his town to be known for more positive things”, and local resident Graeme Garden spoke out at the fete itself.

The former member of The Goodies said he spoke as one not invited to any of the parties held by The Set. Graeme has lived in Chipping Norton for thirty years  and is less than enamoured with The Set. “I can think of more acceptable reasons for us to be put on the map, rather than through any association with sleazy journalsim” he complained.

Amen to that. As the old line has it, they are treading on my dreams. In those, Chipping Norton is still a lovely friendly place where everyone looks out for everyone else. I hate to see it portrayed as the home of a secretive, powerful clique that trades in deception and half-truths, that was prepared to hack into the phone of a murdered child.

I am striving to apply a mental censor and to delete the existence of such ghastly people from a place that served ice cream and doughnuts to small boys on long gone sunny summer days.
By:
salmon spray
When: 15 May 12 22:52
Can't they pin something on Bradley while they're at it. He really is a nasty piece of work.
By:
GT-MOLE
When: 15 May 12 22:59
WTF is Banned_Banks and his butt mate Vidou on any of this?

THE EXPERTS...........btw the tip was there on the forum last night.Wink
By:
motley01
When: 15 May 12 23:05
She was authorising the hacking into phones ffs, does that not concern you
By:
Vubiant
When: 15 May 12 23:05
Ah yes , the predictable cry of 'witch-hunt'...and put in an each way double with 'scapegoat'.
By:
GT-MOLE
When: 15 May 12 23:06
Phone hacking has fook all to do with these charges laid. hthWink
By:
thelatarps
When: 15 May 12 23:12
locking them up is a waste of time
agreed
After all they are no threat to public safety
But there ought to be a fine so hefty that chipping norton becomes a distant memory
By:
GT-MOLE
When: 15 May 12 23:15
A fine? FFS you are having a laugh........2 years minimum or you piss on the justice system.nap
By:
motley01
When: 15 May 12 23:18
GT Mole, your knoweledge of criminal law is on a par with
your knowledge of equine breeding, they are charged with perverting
the course of justice, the full extent of the charges will be revealed.
You stupid boy.
By:
on time
When: 15 May 12 23:18
anybody think they will be pulling more string,s. than pinocchio having a tommy tank ?
By:
thelatarps
When: 15 May 12 23:20
ok
2 years at her maj's pleasure
which u and me are paying for
or take a couple of million off the pair of them to pay for more nurses and police

take their money
its the only way they will understand justice
By:
GT-MOLE
When: 15 May 12 23:41
Motley1........that puts me light years ahead of you in both respects.Sad boy.............pull up where I have been wrong about either?LaughLaughWink
By:
motley01
When: 15 May 12 23:52
Where you have been wrong eh?, have you ever been right, I seem to remember you
from another thread, you had a stallion breeding 12 months of the year in the uk.
If you have nothing to say, just say fcuking nothing, or stick to dogging on the fens.
By:
GT-MOLE
When: 16 May 12 00:00
Just dig up the posts motley1......or do best.......say nothing at all.

HTH Honey.BlushBlushLoveLoveWink
By:
motley01
When: 16 May 12 00:01
Oh dear, good night.
By:
GT-MOLE
When: 16 May 12 00:05
1-0 again ysdc..........get some nuts.hthLaughWink
By:
GT-MOLE
When: 16 May 12 00:07
Btw I hope when you log in this time a better memory or mood pervades?Wink
By:
Blackwater
When: 16 May 12 00:44
Can't help thinking that 'witch hunt' should be rhyming slang for something.
By:
GT-MOLE
When: 16 May 12 00:50
Spot on blackwater and not a fox sake in sight.

Strange all the threats have not been forthcoming from the RP or them as a pair.

Brazilian Colt.......3yo Hesaque Hunt.LoveLoveLoveWink
By:
guinness2dear
When: 16 May 12 11:01
or take a couple of million off the pair of them to pay for more nurses and police

More likely to be spent on a few parties in the Commons..
By:
Sergei_Rebrofl
When: 16 May 12 11:07
Total waste of taxpayers money. Why should my hard earned cash be used for law and order? Since when can't rich people do what they like, when they like? This entire prosecution, nay, witch hunt, stinks of something Hitler and his muslim communist cronies would've done.

Hang the peados.
By:
Do wah Diddy
When: 16 May 12 11:11
SHE WONT HAVE TO WORRY SHELL GET A JOB ON THE PANEL OF BRITAINS GOT TALENT
By:
posy
When: 16 May 12 12:32
Sergei....you hang runner beans not peas ...
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