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And you've already got your role sorted, I say, meaning that, of course, if it ever was a film, he could simply play himself. But he doesn't catch my drift.
"James, you mean?" And then realises his mistake. "Oh! You mean myself? Oh dear. I can't believe I said that." But, of course, he'd be brilliant as James Murdoch. I'm not sure why I didn't think of it before. He's specialised in characters who have an edge, a slightly slippery elusiveness, and there are obvious overtones of what is still, perhaps, his most famous role – the role that saw him burst into public consciousness in Anthony Minghella's
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Do you think it 's just the beginning, I say. "I Hope it 's just the beginning. "And he makes the compressing action on his lips again." I don 't want to quote me, so I' m someone else will offer. It was an interesting Thought for the Day yesterday on Radio 4. I came to know the half so I don 't know who it was, but he was talking to feel sorry for Murdoch. No, it will not repent, he said he was asking for atonement. He was asking for forgiveness. And the guy said, he hasn 't be not judged. He hasn 't any right to even ask, because we still have to direct him. And the court is what is the whole thing. You judge people. These papers have assessed the human. I've been judged. They do not all have to be addressed, and I hope they are ready for it. "
He 's obviously refers to the time for a while, he one-half of the most glamorous couple on earth, the Jew Law-Sienna Miller clutch, a gift to the tabloid editors and celebrity magazines were everywhere. He was the Oscar-nominated, chisel-jawed actor (he was nominated for his role in The Talented Mr. Ripley
Anna Christie, a role that saw him feted by the critics and nominated for an Olivier award. He started out in the theatre and was a successful stage actor long before he was an international film star: he was nominated for his first Olivier (best newcomer) for his first West End play,
He has a whole slew of new films coming out later in the year, but he was also determined to go back to the theatre.
was a great triumph, it was overshadowed in some ways by the Samantha Burke episode ("Jude knows he's been a Bard boy" was one of the headlines), and this time around, it's inevitable that phone hacking will also cast a certain light. But then the play, he says, and his character in particular, is about youth and experience, and loss of innocence, and the gaining of knowledge, themes which are close to his heart too, and which have preoccupied him for much of the last few years.
for allegedly hacking into his phone in 2005 and 2006 – when Rebekah Brooks was editor – and which suggests the problem went much wider than just the News of the World
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I read back his quotes to him and he nods. "That's right, yeah. That's where I've been. That's where a lot of people in this country have been living for years."
What he's done, he says, is to "work out a way around the system". There's been a process of renegotiation, of finding a way of being in the city with his children – Rafferty, 14, Iris, 10, and Rudy, eight (he's also supporting Sophia, 22 months, his daughter born to Samantha Burke in the US). "I've created a haven that works for me and my family that hasn't necessarily involved the law. That's just my way of doing things. Having said that, it's not like I've been a prisoner in my home. I don't want some sort of sob story. I still enjoy a very normal life with my kids. We use trains and buses and that's often the best way. If you build up some sort of psychological bubble around you, I think you're asking for trouble."
, and had his first child by the age of 23.
As a young man fought the law defined by his appearance. At 38, still heavily damped by the beard, he 's for increased Anna Christie He's still an undeniably handsome man, but there '\ sa wider range of roles available to him now: He had the look of a romantic lead, but always longed for the character roles. "I just think that I felt a little disappointed that 's what the people I have while I realized that I had many things to offer, so I wanted roles that went against them choose to feel wanted \. "
Growing older has possibly come as something of a relief. His new films due out later this year include Anna Karenina , With a new screenplay by Tom Stoppard, in which he is not playing dashing Vronsky, Karenin but horned opposite Keira Knightley. He is also with two of the actors of the reunified
Anna Christie is at the Donmar Warehouse, London WC2 from 4 August to 8 October. Box office: 0844 871 7624; www.donmarwarehouse.com
Birmingham, Brighton, Ipswich, Southampton and West Ham look like strong promotion candidates
PROMOTION CHALLENGERS
Birmingham have lost key players such as Roger Johnson, Ben Foster and Barry Ferguson, but in Chris Hughton have a manager who knows how to get out of this division … Blackpool lost Charlie Adam, David Vaughan and, most likely, the objectives of the DJ Campbell - is a massive setback, but Ian Holloway yet his team plays the right way ... Brighton have the talent to do, like Norwich has last season: come up from League One and make a big impact ... Cardiff should have done better last season. Jay Bothroyd is gone, but Malky Mackay has a very good squad ... Trunk finished strong last season and with Nigel Pearson makes some decent shopping, they should pressure on ... Ipswich more like a side capable of challenging for a top-six place and looking to have a highly experienced manager in Paul Jewell ... Leedswere scorers in the Championship last season but struggled badly defensively. If they resolve that they will be challengers ... Leicester have spent hugely – but Cardiff had the best players last season and look what happened to them … Middlesbrough There are dark horses with stability off the pitch, and a talented, experienced manager in Steve Cotterill ... Southampton to the promotion from League One as a springboard for even greater success ... And West Ham a manager in Sam Allardyce, who restore the team 's passion and fighting spirit.
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Allardyce has named Kevin Nolan, the ?4m signing from Newcastle United, as club captain, rather than Parker, although it ought to be noted that Parker was not the captain last season. Matthew Upson, who was released on the expiry of his contract, had the armband.
The country's elite will have to wait. Allardyce must first ensure that the step down a division serves as a springboard. But he has it mapped out and the goal is to challenge for European places and cup finals. "How far can we go? That depends on how much the owners want to back the dream to turn it into reality," he says. "That's what I've done and that's what I do. I turn dreams into reality."
Brewing is a combination of art and science and great brewers are blessed with a little of both. The artist in the brewer chooses the ingredients and balances the flavours and aromas of the finished product. The scientist understands and carefully orchestrates a symphony of chemical reactions between the grain, the water, the hops, and the yeast. The brewing process is complex and what follows can only be an outline of it.
In the Near East, where British-style beer originated, ancient brewers discovered that the grain itself could supply such enzymes during germination. Barley was found to be particularly good at producing them and so it became the grain of choice for beer making.
Preparation of wort
The roasted malt is ground and then loaded into a vessel called a mash tun. Water is added and the mixture is heated, drawing from sugars and other chemicals from the malt and therefore more enzyme activity. The "wort" which is out of this soaking in water, a sweet, brown, earthy liquid.
The first stage of the process of mashing up sounds harmless to "add water", but it is very important. As Pliny the Elder wrote:
Oh! What possesses miraculous inventiveness of Vice! A method has been actually discovered intoxicated on the production even water. "
Water is what a beer "local". Even the strongest beers in 85-90% water, so that the taste of water - a product of local geology and environment - has a direct influence on the taste of beer.
Until the 11th century, beer was drunk without hops. This would be an unpleasant experience to modern palates. Un-hopped beer is at best cloyingly sweet and at worst it has turned eye-wateringly sour due to the growth of unwanted bacteria.
In the first stage of fermentation the yeast cells use up most of the easily fermentable sugars. After this the second stage begins. Fermentation slows and the yeast starts to work on the heavier sugars such as maltotriose. This is referred to as conditioning.
The first thing to consider is the aim of the Bateson report, which has just been published, its standpoint and who wrote it.
The non-invasive methods are not just complementary methods and have applications in fundamental research and at clinical level, generating highly relevant information on brain structure and function especially when used multi-modally.
In multiple sclerosis (MS), MRI shows cellular changes and their progression, which are simply not available from animal studies.Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) has already applied to the study of aging and cognition, neuropsychiatric disorders, HIV infection and MS . MEG has applications in pediatric clinical diagnosis and in the study of neurodevelopmental disorders, including epilepsy, autism, ADHD and dyslexia. His ability to diagnose neuro-developmental disorders has been shown to be superior to studying non-human primates. The patients are checked regularly by means of MEG, after surgery to remove the lesions, to identify both normal and abnormal brain tissue. Brain tissue can then be analyzed directly with in vitro electrophysiological techniques that are usually only on animal brain tissue.
Challenged based on these medical benefits together with the high cost of NHP research, the cost-benefit analysis of the use of the NHP shows the urgent need for the development of alternatives.
Sebastien
Dear Sebastian
Their estimates of the number of monkeys are used, misinformed and wrong. Bateson 's group, the investigation was only the work of research grants from the UK Research Councils, Wellcome Trust, etc., which funds only 20% of all non-human primates used in the UK account. For example, in 2010, show statistics from the Interior Ministry that the 4688 process (not monkeys) performed in primates, 559 involved in basic research, all others were to be used in applied research by the pharmaceutical industry, including mandatory toxicological studies of new drugs. Many grants have used small numbers of respondents Bateson (as little as two monkeys per project), so the 10% of research monkeys who do not give in, not something useful would be the high numbers you imagine a party.
Only the development of new advanced methods, more human-relevant methods, such as the ones we mentioned earlier, will permit us to understand human diseases and cure them, while preserving animal lives.
To conclude I would say that although this report will not please everybody, I like to believe that it is a first step towards major changes, a different attitude that will challenge the use of NHPs in medical research.
Professor Bateson 's report does not mention that almost 10% of the projects "not in good science \ result", but that they show no clear scientific, medical or social services. With an average of 2,500 NHPs used each year, this would be an average of 2,500 NHPs than 10 years wasted. So the question is not about improving the use of NHPs, but whether we need to use them at all.
Parkinson 's disease is a good example because it does not naturally exist in NHPs, and when it is created in them, are only partially similar to the symptoms, some of the hallmarks of the disease away.
Generate the non-invasive methods are not only complementary methods and applications in basic research and clinical level most relevant information about brain structure and function, especially when using multi-modal.
In simple words, so that computer analysis techniques are 'virtual electrodes "in the human brain, with important information that can really replace deliver NHP experiments to create.
TMS, positron emission tomography (PET) and fMRI to visualize all the possibilities, what 's going on in the human brain, on the firing of small groups of neurons before, during and after various interventions.
Teachers 'strike continues, after an unsuccessful settlement reached on pension reforms
The teachers' strike will go ahead on Thursday after ministers failed to reach a settlement with union leaders over pension reforms. After two hours of talks, the unions and government were still fundamentally divided, said Brendan Barber, the general secretary of the Trades Union Congress.
The National Union of Teachers estimates that up to 85% of England's primary and secondary schoold either closed or partially closed, sending millions of children at home.
The heated debate among readers continue to monitor the website.
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I 'm tired of all these proposals that striking is somehow immoral. It 'sa fundamental right of all people have the power to cut its work force. Anything else is slavery.
"We are an institution confident enough that we have ignored the direction of travel, if we hadn 't really was true. We belong to us, not to a political party, and we agree with this decision as part of our school and its children \. "
Not everyone is satisfied with the decision.
• How can schools hope to many students before big fights ever, that the new government to achieve GCSE targets? The Ramsgate School was one of the worst in Britain. But after serving as Marlowe Academy opened it again succeeded in increasing the scores of students to join the national average. Yet only 14% of students achieved at the School of the recently introduced Ebacc standard, so it crashes back down to the bottom of rankings.
• European scientists with a new trial, arts and humanities journals categorize outraged.
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• A study by the National Autistic Society shows many autistic children having to wait a year or more to get help at school. 18% of the parents of children with the condition even said they had to go to a tribunal to win the right help for their child, reports the Independent
The Saatchi gallery is holding a private view for teachers to see its exhibition The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture on Friday 1 July from 7-9pm. It'll include a free guided tour, exhibition guides and refreshments. Please email admin@saatchigallery.com to book, providing your name and school contact details.
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Since last Thursday, Glenn Beck is no longer hosts a show on Fox News, and while going through his final episode, managed to get without even a hint of tears, he did nostalgic about all the wonderful movements, such as the foundation Friday, E4 solution and the 40-day, 40-night challenge that he and his audience no longer get to share (view clip). He also spoke with pride of all the amazing things he learned, because the show has started, - as indeed it was in the Hitler for the Jews, the Progressive 'true goal is to spread radical Islam while urging women retain their reproductive rights, wanted that the Planned Parenthood founder to kill African-Americans through abortion, and that we should all be very careful about the dangers of "social justice".
Social justice - a term that is so dangerous because it can be used for good. But if you know the story behind the social justice, you better investigate, used primarily because it 's churches. They [the progressives] have hijacked the word even further to include justice in environmental matters, reproductive justice and economic justice.
In addition to all the amazing revelations and discoveries, Beck also felt compelled to cry tribute to his pioneering style of the proceedings, including his famous ability, if needed (though sometimes with Vick 's VapoRub helped), and his incredibly long monologues ( which run up to 42 minutes).
Beck understands that many of his followers might be wondering how he could possibly walk away from such a trailblazing success, particularly as "there's no bigger platform than Fox News" to share his ideas, but he explains that he came to realise that what he is doing is not really fit for television anymore (something even his detractors might agree with), because it has become a movement. His leaving is not without regrets, however, which hit home the night he was asked to join Irish rock star Bono, backstage at the Spiderman musical.
Now, here I am in New York. Bono, we're hanging out. Yes, right. I said to my wife, how could we possibly … how would we leave all of this? How could we do it? Here I am, at the pinnacle. There's nowhere else to go from here? How could this be divinely inspired that we leave? We have this access. We're throwing this huge platform away. Well, then I got the message of my life.
The message was that he realized that if he 't go now, he wouldn' didn \ t have to be with his soul intact. But he warns liberals, be cheered by his departure that he once served his philosophy, 24 / 7 starts, we all the time when he will be only 42 minutes per day on Fox can.
Bored already? Are school holidays too long?
For most teachers, is the great history of the school day that they don 't to go somewhere in the vicinity have one. But when the sun goes down, appears to be deserted playgrounds across the country, argues Barbara Ellen parents, the summer holidays are too long.
"For many parents are over the long holiday headaches and expense.
Not only are you non-stop are to provide entertainment for weeks on end, now it seems it must also be an element of "home school" and "self improvement" will allow your child one of those who fall behind him.
The expected result would run around the more affluent parents to keep up with the tutoring, extra reading, rural walks, library visits, chosen sport. Meanwhile, the poorer parents stressed hasn 't have the time or the money to compete in order. "
Teacher Francis Gilbert (wonderland @ francis) believes that it 's wrong to make:
"I'd like to say to a lot of parents I come across: Forget all that nightmarish 'hothousing' advice that clogs up the press, and just pay some attention to your child! Talk to them about what they're interested in, share meals with them, enjoy being in their company…
That 's enough, the summer holidays are a good time to chill out, no matter how rich or poor you are. Leave the teaching to the teacher. "
Students and Sara Abbasi makes a heartfelt plea:
"Please, Mr. Gove, let alone our summer break!"
She calls on parents to have a rethink, too:
"A couple of weeks in the summer fun can not turn a child into an illiterate maniac Maybe it 's time for reform is -. Not in school term, but in the neurotic, pushy attitude of the parents'.
More education news from the Guardian and Observer
• Jessica Shepherd (@ jessshepherd1) says Cambridge dons an expected vote of no confidence in the universities minister, David Willetts, pass on this evening. Details from her, as they come in.
• Generate Britain 's biggest test board, AQA, is planning studies with an interactive test that are harder or softer depending on how a candidate is leading. He says the students are wasting time fighting issues that are either too easy or too difficult for them. The Board proposes that an individual examination, the candidates take to create online.
• Comedian and actress Tracey Ullman is back on the British stage after a 20-year absence in a new play by Stephen Poliakoff about the importance of teachers and the public service ethos in our lives. He wrote the piece before the news of cutbacks in education:
"I didn 't in response to what had happened to write, but it is clearly a relevant issue at the moment. ... It is a look at people who have given their lives to public service."
Erika has been • Fred Whitehead (@ FrederikaW) asked what teachers had as a gift on the last day of the school year.
Owen77 set the bar high:
"Am a primary school teacher, and this year got the usual wine, beer, chocolate stuff, but 3 years ago my pupils all chipped in to get me a Nintendo Wii. Which was nice."
Alexi Wonderland said:
"A Nintendo Wii? Damn. Tinies I have an amazing hand-sewn stuffed giraffe from the one my mother made. Best Present. Ever."
Dapperdanielle was enthusiastic:
"A garden gnome. He traveled to the Highlands with me this summer, and photographed was all kinds of things (with the sheep on the beach, on a mountain). Norman 's trip report was the basis for a geography display to beginning of the term \. "
DollyPop said:
The economist criticized a teacher at my school to receive a gift from a parent, suggesting it was 'a form of bribery'. Bribe to him to do what? Teach your daughter better than anyone else? Give her an A if she might have earned a B? A very thin and potentially offensive argument and deeply ironic, given bankers have ? 14 billion in bonuses received in the last academic year. "
Antgunvoy recalled:
"My cousin works in the provinces, in the North Country you see. She says that people up there are so poor, but so, so kind. A youngster from Grimethorpe brought her a pot of chicken-feet stew as a leaving present."
Timthemonkey us and said:
"The ex was (and to my knowledge) a teacher, and they 'd come home with enough flowers to start a flower shop to many packets of Jaffa cakes supporting their tube one days habit, and once, bizarrely, a sketch of one of their year 9s drew of her in the buff. Despite their supposedly modeled it and not be totally embarrassed by it was the accuracy of it is pretty scary. "
Education News from the Web
• The number of students shift places fell by almost two thirds, as young people shun the tuition fee hike in 2012. Only 5940 18-year-olds applying to university this year have decided to move to start their course by the autumn of next year, compared with 15 701 last year, figures show ucas.
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Victoria Wood's new play takes its inspiration from a childrens' choir she loved. David Ward recalls the poignant reunion of the original singers
On 19 June 1929, 250 singing children - traveled from 52 local schools with the tram to the Free Trade Hall in Manchester to a happy chorus of Henry Purcell record with the Hall? Orchestra, conducted by Sir Hamilton Harty - 190 girls and 60 boys. And they made two bad attempts nervously before looking to take their form for a third, it was on the Columbia 9909, a 12in 78er disc that cost four shillings and six pence and sold 1m copies issued.
Nymphs and shepherds, sung by the Manchester School Children 's Choir, remained in print for more than 60 years and was a much-requested radio identification number, it is immediately available on a CD called Golden Years of the Gramophone.
For those who are '\ s sing bright-voiced kids about the flora' a certain age, Manchester \ s holiday immediately conjures sunny Sunday lunch times, Two-Way Family Favourites on the BBC 's Light Programme, the smell of roasting lamb in the oven and the sound of someone chopping fresh mint.
Victoria Wood with nymphs and shepherds grew, thought it was wonderful and played it on their children. Now she has it as a starting point for That Day We Sang, a new play with songs ("It 's almost a musical") used by the Manchester International Festival. The story unfolds in the two years 1929 and 1969, the year of the reunification of a choir, with the nymph Enid, a secretary, Tubby meets Shepherd, an insurance salesman. It 's the first time their paths have crossed for 40 years.
The reunion is Wood 's invention, but other meetings really happened. The last one was in Manchester Town Hall (where the choir was in 1927 for the building 's 50th birthday sung) in 1989, 60 years after admission. I know I was there.
Then a reporter from the Guardian 's Manchester office, I had Alan Rusbridger (Guardian Weekend who works and has since gone on higher things) called nymphs and shepherds suggest a function. But he had never heard of the choir or the famous record. "I 'll ask around the office and if anyone knows about it, you' re on," he said.
I hung up the receiver and then heard a ragged chorus sing Purcell 's tune in a variety of keys. So I wrote my function and then joined the singers, most of them in their 70s, on their special day in Manchester town hall. Until 1989, only 146 singers (118 nymphs, 28 Shepherd) is still alive and about 60 had come together for a final session. "This will be the last goodbye, because it is so sad farewell to our departing members 's", said Rose Stanley, the mutton-chopped shepherd who had organized the meeting. "Our reception has a life of its own and is now totally different from the people they removed was added. It could go live, but we won 't"
The singers were at the tables around the Great Hall with his Ford Madox Brown murals of great Manchester moments, including the proclamation of Weights and Measures in 1556 and the opening of the Bridgewater Canal distributed in 1761, the nymphs and shepherds event, at least for me , proved to be another great moment in Manchester. The plan was that the veterans would enjoy tea and fancies and get a gold disc from a representative of EMI, a carefully-rehearsed ensemble would then stand on a podium, singing their special number.
"Before we do that," announced someone (possibly Rose), "We 'll play the record in order to remind you of the words." The room was quiet and the Hall?, it' s long dead players on the way, through 60 years of fizz and crackle on the intro to the chorus. As the 1929 children started to sing, I was aware, a haze of sound that I initially identify couldn 't, then I realized that every nymph and shepherd in the room was looking a long time ago and very quietly singing along with his 1929 self.
Sixty years disappeared when the chorus flowed through this magnificent place for three minutes or so. It was an eerily beautiful, unforgettable, poignant musical moment, Purcell is not authentic, but the sound of people associate with the sheer joy of singing together.
I had formerly Stanley Rose, a small book describing his intensely happy four years in the choir and his memories of the days of the written record had interviewed. "[Singing] The joy for me than all my other boyish interests, whether it meant our new wireless speaker kit or the new talkies are in the cinema. Or even watch Manchester City play their brilliant football."
Rose is dead now, but it 's clear that no experience in his life, his nymphs and shepherds vying years. And that the singing of the time, and especially the day of admission, is the inspiration for Wood 's game. "I have remained faithful to the original idea that people spend a day in their life is very important and if they can back that day with the people they then again, they may suddenly her emotions," she says. "That 's what it' s -.. to the power of music to revive your love of life again and hopefully it will 's funny'
On that day we sang Enid and Tubby are together for a film by Granada TV on the 40th Anniversary of the recording was brought in 1969. "You know two people who don 't, but only by chance that day, when they are being filmed to be fair," \, Wood says. "This triggers a chain of events. You put on headphones and play him the record for Tubby, he hasn 't heard since he sang to her, and he begins to cry. That' s the beginning of his emotional journey triggered by hearing the music that he 's very funny and jokey but everything was locked, he has lived with his mother, who doesn'. t like your music has just died, now .. he is able to hear music and it is able to propel him to the next stage of his life. "And the next stage of his life is a relationship with Enid . "The play asks, what do you want to be like a child? As a man, what you feel, you owe that child? The story goes back and forth."
And back it goes to the Free Trade Hall in 1929 when 250 terrified children –"Some would have called us a scruffy lot of elementary school brats," suggested Rose – trembled, overawed by the place and the occasion; they sang with confidence only after their inspiring teacher, Gertrude Riall, told them they were braying like donkeys and were as soggy as yesterday's bread pudding, and clapped her hands to free them of the spell she said had gripped them. For the play, the fear and the music of the original nymphs and shepherds will be recreated by two choirs of 50 (accompanied by the Hall? Youth Orchestra) from four north Manchester primary schools. They have been coached since last October by the soprano and choir trainer Anna Flannagan. The 1929 children were selected by audition; the 2011 children are almost all volunteers and Flannagan has had to take her choir, as Riall did with hers, on a long, improving journey. "They are singing a million light years away from how they were singing when I first met them," Flannagan says. "They know how to breathe and they sing beautifully in tune."
They have also learned to sing, posh, like Riall uses a blackboard and phonetic spelling to make sure that was her choral pronunciation used vowels, said "end" is "and", "darnse" for "dance "and" Mewsic "for" music ". The 2011 children have found something of this hilarious, even if it is not thrilled to Purcell and his melody. "They told me they didn 't like singing nymphs and shepherds," says Wood. "I told them this was show business, get over it. But I think that due to the time they come to do it, in their costumes in 1929 children, they 'll feel differently."
It would be nice to report that the 30 singers primary from Bowker Vale, one of the four schools involved in the production, were joyfully singing nymphs and shepherds ("Your flocks may now securely rest / While you express your happiness ' ) on the playground. But they haven 't, although acting director Gloria Hinz says her 10-year-olds have an experience that has done a tremendous amount of love for their confidence.
Leah found memorable time she spent recording four songs in a studio, says Athar working with wood was a fantastic opportunity, and Zac met many famous people on a trip to London. Aisah adds: "This event made me realize that there are many other music out there, this is a great event and - wow - I 'm in the \.!."
That's probably how many of those 250 children must feel as they rode the streetcar to Peter Street in 1929 have.
Young people turn their backs universities
What is the prospect of higher tuition fees, leaving the plans of young people about school? We already know their parents are perplexed by the new regulation. Now a City & Guilds survey suggests that nearly half of young people (47%) less likely that the University apply to the increase in fees.
More than a quarter (29%) consider alternative education, such as vocational qualifications and apprenticeships, a further quarter (24%) goes directly into the working world, and almost a fifth (16%) will be looking for internships or take a year off.
The survey of over 1,000 pupils and students aged 14 to 19 years shows, career guidance in schools is still not to highlight alternatives to the university. While three-quarters (75%) were told about their university options, received less than half (49%) information on professional qualifications.
City & Guilds CEO Chris Jones says:
"University is still viewed as superior, even though many, are suited to - and therefore pursue -.. more practical hands-on learning, workplace learning a valuable career development route and gives the learner the skills and confidence to successfully "
Meanwhile the head of Virgin Trains, Tony Collins, is calling for A-levels and degrees to be taught at work rather than in schools. That'd work. They could do a coffee round between lessons.
Education News from the Guardian
• BPP, the private university has an aggressive expansion plan to jointly run for at least 10 of their publicly funded colleagues launched Jessica Shepherd tells us. It 's in talks on managing the business side of the university' three campuses and discussions with \ in a "serious stage".
• AQA was forced to apologize after affect some GCSE students a paper with questions from an old exam, the last in a series of errors the students this summer were given. The Independent speculates that the audit committees for students to ruin their chances of academic success could sue. Michael Gove is reportedly very angry - here 'sa picture of it.
• The Guardian cartoon series Ripped Off Britain takes a look at why students arrive at university with poor math skills.
• Coming soon: Jessica Shepherd on the rise in the number of parents appealing for the school place of their choice.
Education News from the Web
• The Welsh education minister, says the University of Wales, has abandoned higher education and Wales brought into disrepute, following a QAA report in its overseas operations, says the BBC.
• Hundreds of scientists, staff and students hold mass strikes and demonstrations in London, met today, about decisions to cut jobs and nearly two thirds of the courses offered from next year. Pickets are on the same day as the Board of Governors meeting, the Independent reports set.
@ Benfolley Tweets:
"Unison and UCU on strike against cuts in today LondonMet # -. Well, several pickets \ in Holloway Road to see"
• Lucky Old University of Sydney. A rarely seen painting by Pablo Picasso Jeune Fille endormie (1935), for almost ? 13.5m was at Christie 's sold auction house in London, which exceeded expectations. The money goes to the university, under the condition of the anonymous donor set, it can be used for scientific research. Would Picasso have approved this?
• Michael Gove 's remarks about top jobs at the BBC, which reported filled by a public school elite in the e-mail, as well as history, which despite its expensive public school education, the Duchess of Cambridge (the' Kate Middleton's holding, made) two spelling errors in a handwritten letter to the All England Club.
• Good article on resilient children of oecdinsights.org:
"In just about every place that takes part in Pisa, a proportion of kids from poorer families buck the trend - they do much better in school than might be predicted based on their family circumstances. Such kids even have a name - resilient students. Across OECD countries, about three out of 10 kids from poorer families are resilient, according to results from the latest round."
(Thanks for the retweet @ informed_edu.)
Education and social media
• There \ s routine, such as universities are nasty or inaccurate comments to do about them 'has been \ s an interesting answers to Harriet Swain "First.: Although it' of students on Facebook, Twitter, or the Student Room ve only Commented been seven, it 's already tweeted 351 times and 85 times shared on Facebook, and secondly, David Colquhoun, UCL scientist and an avid blogger and tweeter (david_colquhoun @), is one of the commentators, and he is from the University of PR departments increasingly angry at the social media act:
"The power of the Internet to allow individuals to express opinions, and sometimes to influence policy is one of the healthiest developments in my life. But like any other development, it can be damaged. The idea that" Reputation Management "warrant may, by a" primed "student in a discussion group, the harmful dishonesty much PR. It \ show's on a par with pharmaceutical companies, disguised as patients in the medical discussion groups, the company Plug 's product."
• \ Here's a useful guide for teachers of @ creativeedu, the tweet, but aren \ want 't quite sure how to get started - a lot of really good advice for all new tweeter to follow who and how you project.
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Under proposals in the legal aid bill, ordinary people including some phone-hacking victims, would not have had access to justice
The current proposals by the Ministry of Justice to abolish the recovery by the successful plaintiff for the success fee "no win no fee 'defamation and privacy cases and the recovery of" after the event "(ATE) insurance premiums is a harmful and dangerous attack on access to justice for citizens with low incomes.
Inevitably, these reforms are irreversible, the balance of power shift to an even greater extent in favor of big media companies (often foreign-owned) over the individual. Fewer lawyers in the situation, the risk of acting on "no win no fee 'take agreements. The ATE insurance market in this area of ??law will disappear.
These reforms are of legal aid, sentencing and punishment of the offender bill 2011, which already has a second reading in the House of Commons and is in danger of being included without proper scrutiny and debate adopted. MPs should not conditioned fully understands the implications of these changes for its constituents, as determined by the incessant media claim that the libel and privacy laws, the ball does not deserve celebrities and footballers.
Pay instead of the losers, as now, the successful plaintiffs have a substantial proportion of its funds or its own costs of damage - and are contrary to popular perception damages in libel and privacy cases are usually very modest. The absence of ATE insurance, most plaintiffs to prevent actions against the media if they are willing to share their home and threatened with bankruptcy, are lost if the case goes. This fits the popular press, because there is no cure for the normal individual will - a great saving in media companies, but with great effort and a terrible injustice to the public. Libel and privacy claims again become the domain of the very rich.
These changes will be pushed through at a time when the behavior of the tabloid press under unprecedented scrutiny to allegations of phone-hacking and the devastation caused to many people 'lives by violating the privacy and invented stories. Many are concerned that what was presented as a struggle for the freedom of speech is really about the preservation of the profits of large media companies.
The events of recent days have changed the landscape and things have been reported, which parts of the press would prefer to have remained buried.
Generated with all the turmoil, the parliament will also discuss a number of questions in the near future, including:
• The phone hacking scandal
• Libel Reform
• Privacy Policy Reform
• The use of so-called superinjunctions
• Civil court funding and conditional fee agreements
Of all these questions is the last one (who sees the most boring) in fact have the urgent and serious reform and the dramatic effect, when Parliament is wrong - by the media and online campaign for the suggestions Jackson.
For many years, ordinary people had access to the courts (free of charge and at no cost to the state) in the publication process through the use of conditional fee agreements (CFA).
There are many examples of people who have benefited from the use of CFAs. These include:
• The parents of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler
• Most of the plaintiffs in the phone-hacking law disputes
• Kate and Gerry McCann
• A Muslim bus driver who mistakenly from the sun is forcing its passengers in his bus so that he could pray, and that meant he might be accused of a terrorist. Includes photos and grossly intrusive (online) video footage of him in prayer
• The senior social worker in the Baby P case falsely accused in The Sun newspaper in 80 articles of being "criminally negligent" with regard to her care for Baby P
• A Danish radiologist sued the U.S. conglomerate GE Healthcare over allegations concerning one of its products
• A comprehensive teacher falsely accused in an internal memorandum of inappropriate contact with students
• A taxi driver, whose photograph appeared in The Sun newspaper, incorrectly described him as a convicted pedophile
• A charity falsely accused by the Daily Express of improper use of charitable donations
• An unemployed woman falsely accused of the attempted murder of a regional newspaper
• An unemployed man who was the subject of false statements, which was on ITV about a medical condition
• An officer falsely accused by The Guardian, responsible for the mistreatment of prisoners
• A family whose son 's suicide was reported invasive in a national tabloid
• Families of soldiers killed on active service, whose phones may have been hacked at a time when they were grieving for their loss
None of these individuals would have access to the courts before the reform of the Access to Justice Act 1999, the use of CFA to promote the state relieve the burden of provision of legal aid funding.
Until the last week or so, the press has gone, with claims that our privacy laws are easy to judge against the will of Parliament and our defamation law is a joke. Recent developments mean that few now hold such views, or at least are willing to print it.
But for CFAs many cases of media abuse (the recent phone-hacking scandal being the major and current example) would not have been exposed. Some newspapers have a habit of dragging out cases for years to deter individuals from pursuing claims, taking advantage of the vast disparity in resources between the press and the claimant. In the phone-hacking scandal it took the News of the World four years to admit the scandal was not limited to just one rogue reporter. It did so only when it was faced with overwhelming evidence obtained through civil court action largely funded by lawyers acting for clients under CFAs.
You 've got a nice new dimension, a brilliant career ahead of him and the world is yours - shocking isn' t it? Fear not, graduates. Our experts answer your questions
How do I clean my online profile and make it work for me?
You should be very aware of your digital presence and remember that nothing is ever really deleted - someone will have it recorded somewhere. This includes social media profiles such as Facebook and Twitter, forums and websites.
The best advice to clean up your online image is divided into three areas:
1st Privacy settings on Facebook and Twitter, you can only your footprint that you allow as friends and supporters to share - make sure you control who you accept in this loop. Of course the safest solution in order to behave well and respect these networks.
2nd
3rd Finally, get mentioned for extracurricular activity may be gold dust - comment on blogs and articles, offer opportunities for journalists and guest blog on things that you 're interested or know a lot about - everyone is a marketer after all.
Barry Furby, digital recruitment specialist and director, new resources
I 'm still nowhere with online job boards - for where else can I do?
By all means apply for open positions on major job boards - but remember that if you ve 'seen it, so has everyone else. If you 've had no joy in this way to stop applications. Instead, start hunting for jobs less obviously visible. Is because if you find one, the competition for a fraction of those go well advertised positions are - it 's time well spent.
The graduates should be aware that several job-hunting methods work for different industries. The application of blind ads for junior jobs in the media is unlikely to reap fruits - but building a network of contacts is. In public places, won all the gossip in the world 't get you through the door - you' ll have to apply through official channels as everyone else.
If you '\ ve only large companies designed to expand your search. Smaller companies have smaller budgets for advertising vacancies - and you won 't they find at recruiting fairs as stalls are so expensive. To make it your job to find out how they do recruit. Scour the trade press and see what small businesses thrive. The site has a "work \ for us" page? Your chances are better looking already.
Keep trying different techniques – and chart how successful each method is for you. Then do more of what's working – and ditch what isn't. Your time and energy are limited resources, so make sure you're using them wisely.
Tanya de Grunwald, the founder of the career site GraduateFog.co.uk
I was an unpaid internship?
Strictly speaking, the most unpaid internships illegal. That is, \ it's illegal for your employer not to pay - and that 's illegal work for free for you as you' re both undermining the national minimum wage law. The problem is that this law isn 't be enforced, the employer is free to graduates, who can afford to, for less than the minimum wage can use to work - and can exclude those' t. Since many students are desperate for experience, the result is that most internships pay nothing now, even though trainees are effectively doing a proper job for months at a time.
To change the things I 'm afraid graduates must decide whether there is an unpaid internship is a good investment for them. This is attributed to the caliber of the company (how impressive it will look on your resume) hang and what you 'll do as you' re there (it 's difficult to speak, until the tea in later interviews). But remember, there is no guarantee of a paid job at the end of it - so you have to keep applying for roles elsewhere before your internship ends.
If you do 't, unpaid, hunting for work to paid employment in a related field, rather than move, building your contacts and try to come over later. Learn more about your rights Intern Aware (internaware.org) and follow the name and shame campaign, that we are running Graduate Fog. It 's important we keep the pressure on companies to pay their interns, the wages they earn.
Tanya de Grunwald
How do I write a speculative letter?
A speculative letter or e-mail shows initiative, and because you 're not in competition with other candidates, it stands a better chance to read, and acted. First, identify companies that are expanding, the growth in industries or need your special skills.
Then use your research on your target contact. Outline the skills you offer, \ to match the company's needs. Be specific about the type of work (or role), where you can get 'd have the greatest impact in short, make a business case for hiring you.
Avoid the impersonal "Dear Sir / Madam," and find the name of the disc, if it 'sa small company or the competent department head in a larger company. In a speculative e-mail with the subject line to identify your sales pitch. Instead of the bland "request for graduate job" write "marketing graduate with strong social media competence 'for example.
Be specific. An introductory paragraph explains your interest in the company, the second summarizes your strengths and where they could be used, the last paragraph asks for a meeting.
Clare Whitmell, business communication trainer
How do I write a CV?
Be picky when you write your resume. Find items from your background that fit the job description. Voluntary, part-time or holiday work, side projects, extracurricular activities and work experience are all valid and will help you develop leadership, problem solving and teamwork skills have.
They emphasize the commercial value of your studies and show how it contributes to the company. Add depth to your education with a "Academic Highlights" Subsection focus on course work, theses, projects or awards that spotlight research or critical thinking skills or relevant.
Get the most from work experience. Don't just list duties, but highlight achievements, quantifying your impact in financial terms where possible. Avoid cliche. Use descriptive, strong vocabulary, and omit "I". ("Doubled profits" rather than "I doubled profits".) Aim for a maximum of two pages. This is a suggested CV format for a graduate:
Name and contact information.
Short Profile Their selling points.
Skills Can certain technical / business skills are acquired at closing.
Selected Services (Optional) This can of paid / unpaid work, extracurricular activities, etc. to be.
Education Studies, University of details, brief history of education), academic highlights subsection.
Professional experience followed by "success stories" give the context and impact).
Clare Whitmell
How do I make an impression at an interview?
You 've already done some preliminary work, now it' s time to do more. Find out what 's going on in the industry and this company. Find out whether you think, what you can say to demonstrate that knowledge, etc. about problems, challenges, new contracts, it is in response to questions or the questions you ask at the end. You don 't need to learn these by heart, you can write them down and refer to them.
Demonstrate good communication and interpersonal skills. Be nice to everyone you meet, make good eye contact, be prepared to shake hands.
Successful candidates will demonstrate energy and enthusiasm for the job so make sure you do this by the way you talk and body language. Sound interested, bend forward and put some energy into your voice.
You know, you have certain questions: Why do you want the job, your strengths and weaknesses. Prepare want to hear answers, not the ones you think the interviewer, but based on what you are about yourself and the job. Select weaknesses, the real, but not relevant to the job, such as taking criticism to heart, or better time to have to make decisions.
Denise Taylor, Career Coach
What benefits can I claim if I 't can get a job?
Once you have completed your course is, and you are looking for work, you may be entitled to claim unemployment benefit 's Allowance (JSA). It is paid by Jobcentre Plus and comes in two forms:
• Contributions-based: Paid during the first six months of unemployment, but to qualify, you have paid enough national insurance in the two years before your entitlement. For example, on most of the graduates.
• Profit-based: Paid after six months, if contributory JSA has expired, or immediately if you have not enough NI contributions paid. Maximum rates for individuals ? 53.45 per week, if you are under 25, or ? 67.50 if you are 25 or more. Unemployed couples can claim ? 105.95 per week. But you are not entitled to income-based JSA if you save more than ? 16,000 or with a partner if you have to work to live more than 24 hours per week.
To any form of JSA you need from work or work for less than 16 hours per week, and be able to work, actively seeking and available for work for at least 40 hours per week. If you qualify for income-based JSA you may be able automatically to other benefits such as Housing Benefit, Council Tax Benefit, free prescriptions, dental treatment and so on hold.
To apply for JSA, phone 0800 055 6688 or fill in the online form (bit.ly/bSgaGO) on the government's public service advice website Directgov (direct.gov.uk), which has more information on benefits.
Graham Snowdon, work-editor of the Guardian
How can I deal with the post-university blues?
It 's normal low that shortly after completion. For some, it 's, because the energy flows it is needed, still, but now there's no way out, so they feel anxious. For others it 's because they' ve realized how much effort they spent 've, and they feel exhausted. Whatever the reason, here are three tips to help you feel positive again:
1st Look for the words you use. Graduation is an end, it 's right - but it also represents a new beginning. It 's more exciting to talk about the new beginnings.
2nd The key here lies in the word "beginnings" as opposed to "beginning". Instead of saying, "I need to start my career," break the task ahead into smaller steps and frame each step in a way that allows you to measure progress. So, for example, instead of expecting to "sort myself out", ask yourself to "prepare my CV", "find two referees", and "register with an employment agency". Put these goals in chronological order and focus on one at a time until you have achieved it.
3rd In the long run you will determine with reasonable certainty that the most valuable aspect of your college experience wasn 't your academic training or career counseling, but the friends you made. Make it a priority to keep in touch with those that mattered most to you during your academic career to stay.
Linda Blair, a clinical psychologist
How can a school get in many more students 'top "marks universities than any other with the same test? It may be worth mentioning a few secrets
Last week, a Cambridge tutor was visiting St Edward's college in Liverpool to talk to students about her subject – Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic – when the subject turned to university admissions. Neither Grace Taylor nor Natalie Allmark fancies delving into the murkier end of the Middle Ages themselves – they're hoping to study nutrition and engineering respectively – or indeed going to Cambridge, but they still found the meeting enlightening as they prepare to apply to university in an ever more competitive environment.
"She told us you've got to show commitment to your course, and go out and do extra reading," Taylor says. "You've got to show you're actually interested in it," Allmark adds. "I think that was really important."
It 's this kind of determination that St Edward \ half's, a Catholic academy with 1,200 students to one of only four non-selective state schools in recent Sutton Trust report as stamped in the well above its weight with regard commended on the number of students will get them both in the university overall, based on their test results and also in the 30 institutions, such as selective (the "Sutton Trust 30") are defined.
Much coverage of Degrees of Success, confidence 's study on the high school destinations of students concentrating in every school and college in England, to the astonishing fact that only five - Westminster, Eton, St Paul' s, St Paul 's Girls' and Hills Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge - sent more students to Oxbridge over three years other than 2000 combined.
The statistics also showed predictable chasms between the success of state and independent institutions. But the same concern for the Sutton Trust, the large differences in the proportions entering higher education between schools were exposed to similar test results - especially for the highly selective colleges.
Such contrasts appeared at all levels of the results, the report said, and are a real cause for concern. He raises two high schools with almost identical test scores, of which 61% in Sutton Trust have 30 institutions, while the figure was only 27% of the other. At two comprehensive schools in the north of England, with similar results, the proportions 23% and 55%.
"Beyond the results they produce, schools appear to differ considerably in the levels of aspiration they engender in their pupils and in the quality of preparation for selection for higher education," the report says. "There are many good examples of effective IAG [information and guidance] throughout the state sector, but there is widespread concern that poor advice may be contributing to the low progression rates in many comprehensive schools and FE colleges."
So who's getting it right and how?
Allmark says she feels well supported over what is an increasingly fraught decision. "They don't just push you to apply for Oxford and Cambridge just because they're supposed to be the best. They're good at helping you make the decision that's right for you. Everyone feels the pressure to choose the right university. You don't want to go and then hate it."
"Many schools don't have a system whereby young people in the sixth form can book in with somebody who's trained in advice and guidance and talk through their individual situation.
Dover students take more subjects on average than those in the Torquay school – five as opposed to four, based on a belief that breadth and depth will make them "well-educated young adults who are ready for their futures". That means the grades they are getting to achieve similar overall scores are lower and they're making fewer applications to the top universities.
• Rupert says "This is the humblest day in my life '
• Rupert 'shocked, appalled and ashamed' at revelations Dowler
• NI 'left' on PCC results of 2009 into allegations
Adrian Sanders
Q: What advice did Colin Myler and Tom Crone give you before you settled the Gordon Taylor case.
Q: Why was Tom Crone asked to leave News International?
James Murdoch says there are no immediate plans to open a new Sunday tabloid - even if "We leave all options open".
Here are the key parts of the statement Rupert Murdoch would have made at the beginning of the session had he been allowed:
My son and I have come here with great respect for all of you, for Parliament and for the people of Britain, whom you represent.
This is the humblest day of my career ...
My company has 52,000 employees. I've done it for 57 years and I've made my mistakes. I have lived in many countries, employed thousands of honest and hard working journalist, in possession of almost 200 newspapers and was followed by countless stories about people and families around the world.
I would like all the victims of phone hacking to know how completely and deeply sorry I am. Apologising cannot take back what has happened. Still, I want them to know the depth of my regret for the horrible invasions into their lives ...
This country has given me, our companies and our employees many opportunities. I am grateful for them. I hope our contribution to Britain will one day also be recognised.
is still questioning JM.
Q: What payments could executives like Rebekah Brooks sanction on their own?
Fortunately the committee members are having none of it: Tom Watson in particular was determined to keep the focus on Rupert Murdoch, who as the chairman and CEO of News Corporation was in charge of corporate governance. The problem for Rupert Murdoch is that he is old and frail, he has difficulty hearing some of the questions, and he has little grasp of detail.
This is the most humble day of my career.
We now know that things went badly wrong at the News of the World. For a newspaper that held others to account, it failed when it came to itself. The behaviour that occurred went against everything that I stand for. It not only betrayed our readers and me, but also the many thousands of magnificent professionals in our other divisions around the world.
I wish we had managed to see and fully solve these problems earlier. When two men were sent to prison in 2007, I thought this matter had been settled. The police ended their investigations and I was told that News International conducted an internal review. I am confident that when James later rejoined News Corporation he thought the case was closed too. These are subjects you will no doubt wish to explore today.
This country has given me, our company and our employees many opportunities. I am grateful. I hope that our contribution to the UK will one day be recognized.
Above all, I hope that by preventing the process, beginning with your questions today, we come to understand the wrongs of the past, that it will happen again, and again in the coming years, the nation 's confidence in our companies and in all British journalism.
I am committed to everything in my power to make this happen.
Thank you. We are pleased to answer your questions.
JM says this related to a voicemail message that was intercepted and that was part of the evidence in the case that led to the conviction of Glenn Mulcaire.
Q: Who is responsible?
RM says he is making every efforts to find jobs for those in other parts of the company.
Q: When did you first meet Alex Marunchak?
RM says he does not remember meeting him. But he could shake hands with him have to walk through the office.
Labour 's Jim Sheridan asks the questions now. He is in question marks.
Q: Through the back door?
Rupert Murdoch says that he was not told of the crucial ?700,000 settlement with Gordon Taylor, the former chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association, which James Murdoch says it was below the "approval threshold" required to inform Rupert Murdoch.
Q: When were you informed about the payments made to Gordon Taylor and Max Clifford?
Rupert Murdoch became aware after the settlement became public, says James.
Yates said he thought it was six or seven years. But if a case was a matter of national importance, evidence is kept in perpetuity.
Q: Did you know about the arrest of Rebekah Brooks in advance?
No, says Yates.
Q: What are your future plans?
Yates says he is accountable. It is time for others to "stand up" and be accountable.
Q: Whom do you mean?
• Yates has denied securing a job at the Met for Neil Wallis's daughter. He just passed on a CV, he said. "I simply acted as a postbox."
paper's then-editor.
Before Rupert Murdoch interrupted his son James, John Whittingdale asked James to what extent parliament was misled. Murdoch started with an apology to victims of illegal phone hacking. Before he could get onto the meat of his answer, his father, sitting to his left, interjected to say: "This is the most humble day of my life."
Yates says he has done that a few times.
Matthew Taylor writes that David Cameron 's chief of staff Ed Llewellyn, by coming under increasing pressure after John Yates, revealing the \ appears "high official", who asked not Met the Prime Minister on the hacking scandal briefly in September 2010 .
Last week it emerged that Llewellyn did not guard accused of warnings about former News of the World editor Andy Coulson on hacking and its links to Jonathan Rees, a detective then passed for conspiracy to murder, to Cameron. Despite the warnings, Llewellyn took the decision that the information already contained in the message clearly in the public domain.
Today met Commissioner Paul Stephenson said one senior official advised in paragraph 10 of the Met had not informed the Prime Minister over the police 's decision, former deputy editor Neil Wallis NoW rental. Yates confirmed Llewellyn was the adviser in question and said Llewellyn told him it was not for him just the clock on the investigation after hackers, adding. "And I 'd be grateful if it wasn' t raised "\
He says that when he reviewed the phone hacking case in 2009, he was told that the original evidence had been inspected by counsel.
It was an offer to the police protocol to explain.
• Ed Llewellyn, David Cameron 's chief of staff, refused the chance to have a briefing on phone hacking, showed Yates. This is what Sir Paul Stephenson was previously thought, as he want to protect an official David Cameron said. But Yates did not say why Llewellyn rejected the offer. But he said the offer was "right" rejected
, a Lib Dem, suggests that Yates sending on a CV might have increased someone's chances of getting a job.
I simply acted as a postbox.
Mark Reckless asked if there was particularly close to Fedorcio News of the World and International News.
Fedorcio says he has read this proposal. He is "dismayed" about it. It was suggested that he put stories with them. But he put stories with different papers.
Q: Did you know Valais 's daughter worked at the Met?
Just yesterday, says Fedorci.
Fedorcio says he prepared a short specification that he emailed to three people.
, a Conservative, asks if Wallis's contract went out to tender.
Q: But, out of the 45 people in your department, could no one else have done this?
Q: Isn't it the case that you employed him to repair relations with the News of the World after the phone hacking affair?
is in the culture, media and sport committee is waiting for the Murdochs. She writes:
The Wilson room is one of smallest rooms for select committee hearings – only 40 or so spaces. I'm (un)lucky 13.
Looks like no one on the front of the queue from the Times, although AA Gill (Sunday Times) is the number 14 Ann Treneman just tried to queue jump, or could by the labyrinthine rules of a police officer monitored the sergeant at arms 's office was confused.
Harry Evans, former editor of the times in which Murdoch bought it, is the second in line to be flown in from New York yesterday.
Jemima Khan served as press photographers mobbed her outside allowed, but they can 't jump queue. It 'sa tricky task of trying to line are interested in as large numbers of public police - snake clock for 7 am.
There are two overspill rooms, and then Boothroyd (fabulous), the Thatcher Room. Nick Davies was here at 10:30 clock and is one of the lucky 15 so far. It 's unclear whether Murdoch will be ushered in by some special way or will occur in the same way as any other.
The next witness is
Paul Owen
You 've got Stephenson cranky pretty quickly. A good omen for gentle Rupert! # Hacking
There are also lots of fun at Stephenson 's panties in reference to himself as prime minister instead of Met commissioner. Tweeter and many are unimpressed by the quality of the survey. doubled danny writes:
Survey is pretty average. Need some experienced lawyers and the like # NOTW
Alan Gillespie writes:
This cmtee must start asking relevant questions, his toothless Stephenson # # # Hacking NOTW
Forty-nine per cent of those who described themselves as News of the World readers said they would buy another newspaper now - with one third of those going to the Mail on Sunday and one third going to the Sunday Mirror.
Here are the
• Stephenson said Boris Johnson and other politicians did not want him to resign.
Nicola Blackwood
Alun Michael
The hearing is already more than half an hour behind schedule. We could also see a clash later, between the Home Affairs Committee and the Committee on Culture, which starts at 2.30pm.
Nicola Blackwood , A conservative, said Peter Clarke told the committee last week that it was not a big part of the evidence thoroughly checked at the time of the original investigation because of a shortage of resources. Were you told that?
Stephenson says he does not say this in 2009.
The answer say sources, is that they may have been blinded by friendship. "Yates thought Wallis was a fantastic guy and really one of the best journalists around," said a source. "The strange thing is that Wallis was a monster of many people in the newsroom he works considered, but Yates had the greatest respect for him.
Some relations of friendship have been tarnished, she asks.
Stephenson says he has no reason to believe this.
Mark Reckless , A conservative asks whether to dismiss Stephenson pressure on the Guardian 's Alan Rusbridger phone hacking history.
He asked for Elizabeth Filkin to come in and advise the Met on this.
Stephenson says, would have questions can ask if there is no good reason, and if it is done secretly. But Stephenson said the hospitality he has received. And he had a good reason to accept it.
Labour 's Steve McCabe asks whether Stephenson was surprised that no one at the Met, he said, that had a business relationship with Neil Wallis Champneys.
Stephenson says he does not see how anyone at the Met would have known this.
Q: But Wallis had a business connection with Champneys. Was it appropriate to accept hospitality there? Wouldn't you expect your senior officers to know this?
Q: Even though one of your senior officers describes Wallis as a personal friend?
(Can \ It 's seems new surprises. Deputies to be. Stephenson, says John Yates say more.)
Q: But the politicians were told about the arrest of Damian Green in advance?
Stephenson said he could say the mayor on the Green's arrest in advance. This was to ensure that the mayor could answer questions when asked about it.
Keith Vaz asks if Sue Akers, who is now on the way the phone hacking investigation, says Stephenson, who they will be arrested.
Wallis was not employed to be Stephenson's personal assistant. He played a minor role. That is one of the differences.
Sir Paul Stephenson
Vaz declares some interests. He met Stephenson at the Police Bravery Awards run by the Sun. And they both know the owner of Champneys, the health spa where Stephenson accepted a ?12,000 freebie.
, Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party.
For a politician to call for political control of the press is pretty scary. After the last fifteen years, cozying up to the Murdoch press, Labour is now trying to turn this into a political vendetta that threatens to damage our democracy. Ed Miliband needs to be reached immediately from his mentor.
My colleague Paul Owen
The Daily Mirror's leader column suggests that David Cameron will be feeling "sick to the put of his stomach" when Rupert Murdoch gives evidence this afternoon.
Jane Martinson