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...Simon Crone, Genworth European vice-president for mortgage insurance, said the crisis concerned both lending to first-time buyers and low rates of house building....
...James Lovegrove is author of ‘Age of Voodoo’ (Solaris)...
...Nowhere was persecution more relentless than in Scotland, where the obsession of King James VI (James I of England) with witches saw him personally supervise their torture during the North Berwick witch...
...The committee’s members have not yet finalised their chapter on James Murdoch, who they interviewed on July 19 last year and recalled on November 10....
...Whether or not Mr Myler and Mr Crone communicated this to James Murdoch, who then had executive charge of NI, is still a matter of dispute, but the MPs on Tuesday concluded they could not be certain that...
...Again, the paragraphs of the report condemning Colin Myler and Tom Crone were passed by a 6 to 4 vote....
...Mr Crone said the report contained “serious flaws”. News Corp shares closed up 0.9 per cent at $19.79....
...time” and was persuaded by Mr Crone and Colin Myler, then editor of the paper....
...The report will criticise both Mr Crone and Mr Myler for misleading evidence given to parliament three years ago....
...The three are Les Hinton, James Murdoch’s predecessor as NI chairman and Rupert Murdoch’s most trusted lieutenant for 50 years; Colin Myler, former editor of the NotW; and Tom Crone, former legal adviser...
...The committee found no evidence that he himself, nor his son James, until recently the chairman of News International, had misled MPs....
...James Murdoch, executive chairman of News International, saw the “damning email” that showed more than one News of the World journalist had hacked mobile phones in 2008, a witness to the Leveson inquiry...
...Mr Crone asked. “At best, his evidence on this matter was disingenuous.” MPs will report before the end of the year on whether James Murdoch or Mr Crone and Mr Myler misled their committee....
...Fighting to preserve his reputation, James Murdoch had to fend off accusations of dishonesty, racketeering and incompetence from UK parliamentarians on Thursday....
...The former legal director of the News of the World has told MPs that he is certain that James Murdoch was briefed on the contents of a legal opinion about the newspaper’s “culture” of illegal information...
...Mr Thurlbeck said that after the meeting, Mr Crone told him that he had indeed done so....
...A week later, the two men met James Murdoch, then executive chairman of NGN’s parent, News International, to brief him....
...He criticised Colin Myler, the former editor of the News of the World, and said it should not have kept the same in-house lawyer – thought to be a reference to Tom Crone – for 20 years....
...James Murdoch is expected to face censure over his management style despite a divide within the committee over his exact role. The report is being printed overnight in an attempt to prevent leaks....
...James Murdoch has challenged interpretations of an email exchange at the heart of investigations into what he and other News International executives knew about the extent of phone hacking at the News of...
...That meeting was between Mr Murdoch, Tom Crone, the legal director of the News of the World, and Colin Myler, the editor of the paper....
...In July, Mr Myler and Tom Crone, the former News of the World lawyer, challenged testimony to parliament by James Murdoch, saying that the head of News Corp’s UK newspaper arm and wider European and Asian...
...In a gruelling examination lasting almost three times its scheduled length, MPs landed no blows on James Murdoch over his honesty but stung him with jabs at his competence....
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