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15 May 12
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I suppose that's Charlie's Training career put on hold
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Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, is to be charged with perverting the course of justice, the Crown Prosecution Service said on Tuesday.
Brooks, who was arrested in March by Scotland Yard officers investigating phone hacking, is the first person to face charges in the major criminal investigation into hacking and allegations of bribing public officials.
Her husband, Charlie Brooks, the racehorse trainer and friend of the prime minister, is also to be charged, the CPS announced.
Mr and Mrs Brooks said: "We deplore this weak and unjust decision. After the further unprecedented posturing of the CPS we will respond later today after our return from the police station."
Brooks and her husband were told the decision on Tuesday morning when they returned to the police station to answer bail along with the five other suspects.
The pair will be summonsed to court where the charges will be formally laid.
The charges are the first since Operation Weeting began. Scotland Yard has budgeted for three linked inquiries to run to 2015 at a cost of more than £40m. The CPS is still studying four more files which have been passed to them by detectives investigating phone hacking, leaks and alleged bribes to the police.
Brooks, who was arrested in March by Scotland Yard officers investigating phone hacking, is the first person to face charges in the major criminal investigation into hacking and allegations of bribing public officials.
Her husband, Charlie Brooks, the racehorse trainer and friend of the prime minister, is also to be charged, the CPS announced.
Mr and Mrs Brooks said: "We deplore this weak and unjust decision. After the further unprecedented posturing of the CPS we will respond later today after our return from the police station."
Brooks and her husband were told the decision on Tuesday morning when they returned to the police station to answer bail along with the five other suspects.
The pair will be summonsed to court where the charges will be formally laid.
The charges are the first since Operation Weeting began. Scotland Yard has budgeted for three linked inquiries to run to 2015 at a cost of more than £40m. The CPS is still studying four more files which have been passed to them by detectives investigating phone hacking, leaks and alleged bribes to the police.
Anyone charged with the offence can only be tried in a crown court, where the maximum sentence for those found guilty of perverting the course of justice is life imprisonment.
Anaglogs Daughter 15 May 12 10:03
I suppose that's Charlie's Training career put on hold
I suppose that's Charlie's Training career put on hold
In the unlikely event of her being found guilty and jailed would she have to have a haircut?
Rebekah Brooks charged with 3 counts of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Charlie Brooks 2 counts of same. Mrs Brooks charges relate to concealing material from police officers, removing 7 boxes from NI archive, concealing documents and computers
Cheryl Carter, Mark Hannha, Paul Edwards (her driver)) also charged
Cheryl Carter, Mark Hannha, Paul Edwards (her driver)) also charged
Forcing her to have a haircut would breach her human rights imo.
15/05/2012
Charging announcement in relation to Rebekah Brooks and others
Alison Levitt, QC, Principal Legal Advisor to the Director of Public Prosecutions oversees CPS decision making, and all potential prosecutions, in relation to the ongoing phone hacking investigations and other related matters. Miss Levitt said:
“This statement is made in the interests of transparency and accountability to explain the decisions reached in respect of allegations that Rebekah Brooks conspired with her husband, Charles Brooks and others to pervert the course of justice.
The Crown Prosecution Service received a file of evidence from the Metropolitan Police Service on 27th March 2012 in relation to seven suspects:
Rebekah Brooks;
Charles Brooks;
Cheryl Carter - Mrs Brooks’ personal assistant;
Mark Hanna - Head of Security at News International;
Paul Edwards - Mrs Brooks’ chauffeur who was employed by News International;
Daryl Jorsling and a seventh suspect - both of whom provided security for Mrs Brooks supplied by News International.
All the evidence has now carefully been considered.
Applying the two-stage test in the Code for Crown Prosecutors I have concluded that in relation to all suspects except the seventh, there is sufficient evidence for there to be a realistic prospect of conviction. I then considered the second stage of the test, and I have concluded that a prosecution is required in the public interest in relation to each of the other six.
All seven suspects have this morning been informed of my decisions. They are all due to answer their bail at police stations later today. When they do so, they will be charged as follows:
CHARGE 1 – CONSPIRACY TO PERVERT THE COURSE OF JUSTICE
Rebekah Brooks between 6th July and 19th July 2011 conspired with Charles Brooks, Cheryl Carter, Mark Hanna, Paul Edwards, Daryl Jorsling and persons unknown to conceal material from officers of the Metropolitan Police Service
CHARGE 2 - CONSPIRACY TO PERVERT THE COURSE OF JUSTICE
Rebekah Brooks and Cheryl Carter between 6th July and 9th July 2011 conspired together permanently to remove seven boxes of material from the archive of News International.
CHARGE 3 – CONSPIRACY TO PERVERT THE COURSE OF JUSTICE
Rebekah Brooks, Charles Brooks, Mark Hanna, Paul Edwards and Daryl Jorsling conspired together and with persons unknown, between 15th July and 19th July 2011, to conceal documents, computers and other electronic equipment from officers of the Metropolitan Police Service.
All these matters relate to the ongoing police investigation into allegations of phone hacking and corruption of public officials in relation to the News of the World and The Sun newspapers.
Following charge, these individuals will appear before Westminster Magistrates Court on a date to be determined.
No further action will be taken against the seventh suspect.
May I remind all concerned that these six individuals now will be charged with criminal offences and that each has a right to a fair trial. It is very important that nothing is said, or reported, which could prejudice that trial. For these reasons it would be inappropriate for me to comment further."
Charging announcement in relation to Rebekah Brooks and others
Alison Levitt, QC, Principal Legal Advisor to the Director of Public Prosecutions oversees CPS decision making, and all potential prosecutions, in relation to the ongoing phone hacking investigations and other related matters. Miss Levitt said:
“This statement is made in the interests of transparency and accountability to explain the decisions reached in respect of allegations that Rebekah Brooks conspired with her husband, Charles Brooks and others to pervert the course of justice.
The Crown Prosecution Service received a file of evidence from the Metropolitan Police Service on 27th March 2012 in relation to seven suspects:
Rebekah Brooks;
Charles Brooks;
Cheryl Carter - Mrs Brooks’ personal assistant;
Mark Hanna - Head of Security at News International;
Paul Edwards - Mrs Brooks’ chauffeur who was employed by News International;
Daryl Jorsling and a seventh suspect - both of whom provided security for Mrs Brooks supplied by News International.
All the evidence has now carefully been considered.
Applying the two-stage test in the Code for Crown Prosecutors I have concluded that in relation to all suspects except the seventh, there is sufficient evidence for there to be a realistic prospect of conviction. I then considered the second stage of the test, and I have concluded that a prosecution is required in the public interest in relation to each of the other six.
All seven suspects have this morning been informed of my decisions. They are all due to answer their bail at police stations later today. When they do so, they will be charged as follows:
CHARGE 1 – CONSPIRACY TO PERVERT THE COURSE OF JUSTICE
Rebekah Brooks between 6th July and 19th July 2011 conspired with Charles Brooks, Cheryl Carter, Mark Hanna, Paul Edwards, Daryl Jorsling and persons unknown to conceal material from officers of the Metropolitan Police Service
CHARGE 2 - CONSPIRACY TO PERVERT THE COURSE OF JUSTICE
Rebekah Brooks and Cheryl Carter between 6th July and 9th July 2011 conspired together permanently to remove seven boxes of material from the archive of News International.
CHARGE 3 – CONSPIRACY TO PERVERT THE COURSE OF JUSTICE
Rebekah Brooks, Charles Brooks, Mark Hanna, Paul Edwards and Daryl Jorsling conspired together and with persons unknown, between 15th July and 19th July 2011, to conceal documents, computers and other electronic equipment from officers of the Metropolitan Police Service.
All these matters relate to the ongoing police investigation into allegations of phone hacking and corruption of public officials in relation to the News of the World and The Sun newspapers.
Following charge, these individuals will appear before Westminster Magistrates Court on a date to be determined.
No further action will be taken against the seventh suspect.
May I remind all concerned that these six individuals now will be charged with criminal offences and that each has a right to a fair trial. It is very important that nothing is said, or reported, which could prejudice that trial. For these reasons it would be inappropriate for me to comment further."
Guardian. 18th July 2011.
Detectives are examining a computer, paperwork and a phone found in a bin near the riverside London home of Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International.
The Guardian has learned that a bag containing the items was found in an underground car park in the Design Centre at the exclusive Chelsea Harbour development on Monday afternoon.
The car park, under a shopping centre, is yards from the gated apartment block where Brooks lives with her husband, a former racehorse trainer and close friend of David Cameron.
It is understood the bag was handed in to security at around 3pm, and that shortly afterwards Brooks's husband, Charlie, arrived and tried to reclaim it. He was unable to prove the bag was his and the security guard refused to release it.
Instead, it is understood that the security guard called the police. In less than half an hour, two marked police cars and an unmarked forensics car are said to have arrived at the scene.
Police are now examining CCTV footage taken in the car park to uncover who dropped the bag. Initial suspicions that there had been a break-in at the Brooks's flat have been dismissed.
David Wilson, Charlie Brooks's official spokesman, told the Guardian that Charlie Brooks denies that the bag belonged to his wife. "Charlie has a bag which contains a laptop and papers which were private to him," said Wilson.
"They were nothing to do with Rebekah or the [phone-hacking] case."
Yeah, right.
Detectives are examining a computer, paperwork and a phone found in a bin near the riverside London home of Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International.
The Guardian has learned that a bag containing the items was found in an underground car park in the Design Centre at the exclusive Chelsea Harbour development on Monday afternoon.
The car park, under a shopping centre, is yards from the gated apartment block where Brooks lives with her husband, a former racehorse trainer and close friend of David Cameron.
It is understood the bag was handed in to security at around 3pm, and that shortly afterwards Brooks's husband, Charlie, arrived and tried to reclaim it. He was unable to prove the bag was his and the security guard refused to release it.
Instead, it is understood that the security guard called the police. In less than half an hour, two marked police cars and an unmarked forensics car are said to have arrived at the scene.
Police are now examining CCTV footage taken in the car park to uncover who dropped the bag. Initial suspicions that there had been a break-in at the Brooks's flat have been dismissed.
David Wilson, Charlie Brooks's official spokesman, told the Guardian that Charlie Brooks denies that the bag belonged to his wife. "Charlie has a bag which contains a laptop and papers which were private to him," said Wilson.
"They were nothing to do with Rebekah or the [phone-hacking] case."
Yeah, right.
Being charged doesn't mean anything.
Guarantee they don't end up seeing the inside of a court.
Guarantee they don't end up seeing the inside of a court.
Also, its utterly disgusting the way in which the Police have handled this.
Absolutely no need to make a huge song and dance over this issue.
Absolutely no need to make a huge song and dance over this issue.
I reckon Charlie wishes he had stayed with Miriam Francome now.
I Always Win is now peddling his line above on Politics forum. Only joined today. Hmmmmm.
She's in Lewisham Police Station at the moment, he's just left a West London station. I wonder will the BHA revoke his licence till it's all cleared up.
Craig Whyte has been banned for life from Scottish Football. Not yet been charged with a criminal offence ( And may not be of course ).
Rebekah Brooks and others accused in UK hacking scandal to appear in court in London on 13th June
pity it's not a week later then they'd miss ascot....wonder if they'll be allowed in the royal enclosure.
Much less likely to stand out against the crowd if they're in the Royal Enclosure imo.
Amazing the Ross Kemp hung out with the hardest nutters in the world.Gangs in Afghanaztan, Russia, The Bronx, Brixton, came away unscathed then he married Rebekha Wade 
A tabloid tale: the rise and fall of Rebekah Brooks
By Estelle Shirbon and Georgina Prodhan http://www.reuters.com
(Reuters) - Rebekah Brooks rose from secretary to chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper group, but the woman who once partied with prime ministers now faces criminal charges and possible prison time.
Entering a London police station on Tuesday to be told she was charged with hiding evidence from police investigating phone-hacking by some of her reporters, Brooks was beset by cameramen and photographers eager to capture every detail of her dramatic fall from grace.
Instantly recognizable with her long mane of red curls, Brooks, 43, has rarely been out of the news since the phone-hacking scandal exploded last summer, forcing Murdoch to hastily shut down the News of the World newspaper she used to edit.
An intensely private woman who splashed intimate details of other people's lives on the front pages of her newspapers, Brooks was forced out into the full glare of the world's media last Friday for a day of televised grilling.
Testifying at the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics, which was set up as a result of the News of the World saga, Brooks displayed both the charm and the steel that beguiled the great and the good of British media and politics for so long.
Out of the many powerful people Brooks befriended during her stellar career, Murdoch was the one who made the biggest impact on her life. Her close friendship with the News Corp tycoon gave her entree in the most exclusive circles and he repaid her loyalty and friendship with one huge promotion after another.
After rising in just 11 years from secretary to editor of the News of the World in 2000, aged 31, Brooks became the first woman editor of the Sun in 2003. In 2009, Murdoch made her CEO of News International, his British newspaper group.
Confronted by a crowd of reporters and asked what was his top priority as he flew into London last July to take charge of the hacking crisis, Murdoch put his arm around Brooks and answered: "This one".
People who know Brooks are not surprised by her ability to inspire such loyalty from the tough-talking media mogul.
"She's sinuous and clever and probably the most brilliant networker I've ever met," said veteran media commentator Roy Greenslade, a former News International journalist who has known Brooks for many years.
Brooks was not able to counter a general long-term fall in newspaper circulation, but she was respected by colleagues and her emphasis on celebrity-focused stories pleased readers.
"HURTFUL GOSSIP"
Unlike Murdoch, who used his own appearance at Leveson in April to stick the knife into former allies who have turned on him, Brooks smiled and blushed and sought to avoid answering questions that would embarrass the friends in high places who are now keeping their distance.
It was only after a clear order from the judge presiding over the inquiry that she reluctantly revealed that Prime Minister David Cameron used to sign off his frequent text messages to her with an affectionate "LOL - lots of love".
But when she was pressed over some of the controversial stories she ran during her time as editor of the Sun, Britain's most widely read newspaper, Brooks grew visibly irritated and turned the tables on the lawyer who was questioning her.
"We're not in a tabloid newsroom now, we're at an inquiry," she chided him. She went on to complain that many of the questions concerned "gossipy" stories that had appeared in the media about her and said that if she were "a grumpy old man" nobody would write a word about these matters.
There was little sympathy for Brooks among the many people who suffered maulings by the Murdoch press during her years as editor and chief executive.
"The sudden transformation of Mrs Brooks from a high-powered friend of the mighty to an injured young woman just doesn't wash," said Clare Short, a former minister under Labor Prime Minister Tony Blair who once fell foul of Brooks's Sun.
Short had complained about the topless models on Page 3 of the newspaper, a daily feature introduced by Murdoch in 1970. The Sun retaliated with a crudely doctored image of Short's head set on an overweight woman's body, under the headline: "Fat, jealous Clare brands Page 3 porn". The Sun also dispatched a busload of the topless models to Short's home.
"She used her papers to humiliate and viciously attack women, and her femininity to get close to powerful men. She experienced much less hurtful gossip than she dished out," Short told Reuters on Tuesday.
Former employees describe her as "one of the lads" who fitted into the macho culture of the tabloids by swearing in the newsroom and drinking in the pub with colleagues - while making it very clear who was boss.
"At first, I wondered who was this person flouncing around the office with big red hair like she owned the place. I soon found out," said one ex-Sun reporter.
CELEBRITY WEDDING
As News of the World editor, she caused controversy with a campaign to "name and shame" child sex offenders that resulted in a mob attacking a pediatrician mistaken for a pedophile.
It was under her editorship that an investigator working for the News of the World hacked into the voicemail of missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler, later found murdered. That was the incident which, when made public, opened the floodgates of revelations that led to the demise of the News of the World and the setting up of the Leveson Inquiry.
Brooks says she did not know about the hacking, but on Tuesday she was charged with hiding documents and computers from the police and conspiring to remove records from Murdoch's London headquarters.
Her second husband Charlie, a racehorse trainer and a contemporary of Cameron at Eton College, an exclusive private school, was also charged, for allegedly assisting the cover-up.
It was a shocking turn of events for the couple, who had previously enjoyed a charmed life. Their 2009 wedding at a sprawling countryside estate brought together the Murdoch family, Cameron, then in opposition, and then Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his wife Sarah.
It was a measure of Rebekah Brooks's power that the Browns attended the event, given their dismay at her decision three years earlier to splash news of their four-month-old baby's cystic fibrosis diagnosis on the front page of the Sun.
The wedding, which despite its celebrity guest list received no media coverage, was also an example of Brooks' remarkable ability to maintain her privacy despite her high profile.
The birth of her daughter Scarlett by a surrogate mother in January was marked only by an official statement and photograph.
A rare exception was a 2005 incident when Brooks, then known by her maiden name Rebekah Wade, was arrested for allegedly assaulting her then husband Ross Kemp, an actor in the popular TV soap opera Eastenders. Rival newspapers gleefully noted that the arrest came while the Sun was running a campaign against domestic violence.
Released with no further action taken, Brooks reportedly went straight to work after her overnight stay in the cells, wearing a designer suit that Rupert Murdoch had sent to the police station.
"She wouldn't bring her personal life into the office," says a former News of the World reporter.
"She wouldn't come in and say: 'Ross and I have had a terrible row,' like some women might. She was more likely to come in and say: 'Where the hell is that page you promised me?'"
A tabloid tale: the rise and fall of Rebekah Brooks
By Estelle Shirbon and Georgina Prodhan http://www.reuters.com
(Reuters) - Rebekah Brooks rose from secretary to chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper group, but the woman who once partied with prime ministers now faces criminal charges and possible prison time.
Entering a London police station on Tuesday to be told she was charged with hiding evidence from police investigating phone-hacking by some of her reporters, Brooks was beset by cameramen and photographers eager to capture every detail of her dramatic fall from grace.
Instantly recognizable with her long mane of red curls, Brooks, 43, has rarely been out of the news since the phone-hacking scandal exploded last summer, forcing Murdoch to hastily shut down the News of the World newspaper she used to edit.
An intensely private woman who splashed intimate details of other people's lives on the front pages of her newspapers, Brooks was forced out into the full glare of the world's media last Friday for a day of televised grilling.
Testifying at the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics, which was set up as a result of the News of the World saga, Brooks displayed both the charm and the steel that beguiled the great and the good of British media and politics for so long.
Out of the many powerful people Brooks befriended during her stellar career, Murdoch was the one who made the biggest impact on her life. Her close friendship with the News Corp tycoon gave her entree in the most exclusive circles and he repaid her loyalty and friendship with one huge promotion after another.
After rising in just 11 years from secretary to editor of the News of the World in 2000, aged 31, Brooks became the first woman editor of the Sun in 2003. In 2009, Murdoch made her CEO of News International, his British newspaper group.
Confronted by a crowd of reporters and asked what was his top priority as he flew into London last July to take charge of the hacking crisis, Murdoch put his arm around Brooks and answered: "This one".
People who know Brooks are not surprised by her ability to inspire such loyalty from the tough-talking media mogul.
"She's sinuous and clever and probably the most brilliant networker I've ever met," said veteran media commentator Roy Greenslade, a former News International journalist who has known Brooks for many years.
Brooks was not able to counter a general long-term fall in newspaper circulation, but she was respected by colleagues and her emphasis on celebrity-focused stories pleased readers.
"HURTFUL GOSSIP"
Unlike Murdoch, who used his own appearance at Leveson in April to stick the knife into former allies who have turned on him, Brooks smiled and blushed and sought to avoid answering questions that would embarrass the friends in high places who are now keeping their distance.
It was only after a clear order from the judge presiding over the inquiry that she reluctantly revealed that Prime Minister David Cameron used to sign off his frequent text messages to her with an affectionate "LOL - lots of love".
But when she was pressed over some of the controversial stories she ran during her time as editor of the Sun, Britain's most widely read newspaper, Brooks grew visibly irritated and turned the tables on the lawyer who was questioning her.
"We're not in a tabloid newsroom now, we're at an inquiry," she chided him. She went on to complain that many of the questions concerned "gossipy" stories that had appeared in the media about her and said that if she were "a grumpy old man" nobody would write a word about these matters.
There was little sympathy for Brooks among the many people who suffered maulings by the Murdoch press during her years as editor and chief executive.
"The sudden transformation of Mrs Brooks from a high-powered friend of the mighty to an injured young woman just doesn't wash," said Clare Short, a former minister under Labor Prime Minister Tony Blair who once fell foul of Brooks's Sun.
Short had complained about the topless models on Page 3 of the newspaper, a daily feature introduced by Murdoch in 1970. The Sun retaliated with a crudely doctored image of Short's head set on an overweight woman's body, under the headline: "Fat, jealous Clare brands Page 3 porn". The Sun also dispatched a busload of the topless models to Short's home.
"She used her papers to humiliate and viciously attack women, and her femininity to get close to powerful men. She experienced much less hurtful gossip than she dished out," Short told Reuters on Tuesday.
Former employees describe her as "one of the lads" who fitted into the macho culture of the tabloids by swearing in the newsroom and drinking in the pub with colleagues - while making it very clear who was boss.
"At first, I wondered who was this person flouncing around the office with big red hair like she owned the place. I soon found out," said one ex-Sun reporter.
CELEBRITY WEDDING
As News of the World editor, she caused controversy with a campaign to "name and shame" child sex offenders that resulted in a mob attacking a pediatrician mistaken for a pedophile.
It was under her editorship that an investigator working for the News of the World hacked into the voicemail of missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler, later found murdered. That was the incident which, when made public, opened the floodgates of revelations that led to the demise of the News of the World and the setting up of the Leveson Inquiry.
Brooks says she did not know about the hacking, but on Tuesday she was charged with hiding documents and computers from the police and conspiring to remove records from Murdoch's London headquarters.
Her second husband Charlie, a racehorse trainer and a contemporary of Cameron at Eton College, an exclusive private school, was also charged, for allegedly assisting the cover-up.
It was a shocking turn of events for the couple, who had previously enjoyed a charmed life. Their 2009 wedding at a sprawling countryside estate brought together the Murdoch family, Cameron, then in opposition, and then Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his wife Sarah.
It was a measure of Rebekah Brooks's power that the Browns attended the event, given their dismay at her decision three years earlier to splash news of their four-month-old baby's cystic fibrosis diagnosis on the front page of the Sun.
The wedding, which despite its celebrity guest list received no media coverage, was also an example of Brooks' remarkable ability to maintain her privacy despite her high profile.
The birth of her daughter Scarlett by a surrogate mother in January was marked only by an official statement and photograph.
A rare exception was a 2005 incident when Brooks, then known by her maiden name Rebekah Wade, was arrested for allegedly assaulting her then husband Ross Kemp, an actor in the popular TV soap opera Eastenders. Rival newspapers gleefully noted that the arrest came while the Sun was running a campaign against domestic violence.
Released with no further action taken, Brooks reportedly went straight to work after her overnight stay in the cells, wearing a designer suit that Rupert Murdoch had sent to the police station.
"She wouldn't bring her personal life into the office," says a former News of the World reporter.
"She wouldn't come in and say: 'Ross and I have had a terrible row,' like some women might. She was more likely to come in and say: 'Where the hell is that page you promised me?'"
As News of the World editor, she caused controversy with a campaign to "name and shame" child sex offenders that resulted in a mob attacking a pediatrician mistaken for a pedophile.
What more do you need to know about sun and notw readers.
What more do you need to know about sun and notw readers.
Are you sure it wasn't the other way round Anaglog...didn't Ross Kemp start to hang out with the nutters and hard cases after he married Rebekah !
YEP, On 11 June 2002 Kemp married Rebekah Wade, the then editor of The Sun. In November 2005 Wade was arrested following an alleged assault on her husband. Kemp refused medical attention for a swollen lip and no action was taken. In March 2009 Kemp and Wade divorced, after he admitted to adultery. In October 2010, Kemp became a father to a baby boy with ex-partner Nicola Coleman.Kemp is a longtime supporter of the Labour Party. In the 2010 General Election he called on voters to back the party "which cares for everyone in society, not just the privileged few
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.
From Graham Bradley's book The Wayward Lad
'But while charlie was cunning in the ways of the european form book he wasnt nearly as cunning in the ways of the world.'
'If only I(brad) could have got to him..'
'But while charlie was cunning in the ways of the european form book he wasnt nearly as cunning in the ways of the world.'
'If only I(brad) could have got to him..'
Maybe they should get Bradleys brief in?didn't do him any harm!
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.
What else would you expect after she worked for that awful man, Murdoch.
No doubt the trusty sword of British justice will protect them.
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-...
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-...
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Can't they pin something on Bradley while they're at it. He really is a nasty piece of work.
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.
THE EXPERTS...........btw the tip was there on the forum last night.
She was authorising the hacking into phones ffs, does that not concern you
Ah yes , the predictable cry of 'witch-hunt'...and put in an each way double with 'scapegoat'.
Phone hacking has fook all to do with these charges laid. hth
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
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
A fine? FFS you are having a laugh........2 years minimum or you piss on the justice system.nap
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.
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.
anybody think they will be pulling more string,s. than pinocchio having a tommy tank ?
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
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
Motley1........that puts me light years ahead of you in both respects.Sad boy.............pull up where I have been wrong about either?
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.
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.
Just dig up the posts motley1......or do best.......say nothing at all.
HTH Honey.
HTH Honey.
Btw I hope when you log in this time a better memory or mood pervades?
Can't help thinking that 'witch hunt' should be rhyming slang for something.
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.
Strange all the threats have not been forthcoming from the RP or them as a pair.
Brazilian Colt.......3yo Hesaque Hunt.
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..
More likely to be spent on a few parties in the Commons..
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.
Hang the peados.
SHE WONT HAVE TO WORRY SHELL GET A JOB ON THE PANEL OF BRITAINS GOT TALENT
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