Ed Miliband

Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change

Ed Miliband

Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change

MURDOCH FACES PRESSURE TO SCRAP BSkyB TAKEOVER OVER PHONE HACKING CRISIS

Rupert Murdoch has arrived in the UK to face growing pressure to scrap his company's takeover bid for BSkyB due to the phone-hacking crisis. Labour leader Ed Miliband urged him to abandon the bid and sack News International chief Rebekah Brooks. The BBC understands that e-mails found by News International appear to show police were paid for information, and that phone hacking went wider than a single rogue reporter's activities.

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