Man Utd star Cleverley accepts libel damages from Sun

Sun

apology to the player, and to pay damages for falsely accusing him of sending text messages that ask for sex

The Sun has apologized and agreed to pay "a substantial sum in damages" for the Manchester United footballer Tom Cleverley for falsely accusing him of sending a text message asking women for sex.

In a statement read by QC David Price, on behalf of Cleverley, the High Court in London heard Wednesday how the Sun had published a series of articles entitled "Man U have asked me to 5:00 to sex (even if it comes) "August 16, 2011 and on its website.

According to the statement, the article says that Cleverley "had met a girl at a nightclub in Blackpool and bombarded with text messages to his offer of sex."

"Mr. Cleverley is then argued that the girl had a B & B and introduced him to his duty and did a Google search on his name to show him that he was a footballer.

"The more serious, then the article states that repeatedly harassed for sex, despite her saying no."

learned that the man in question was not Cleverley, but someone posing as him. Another individual of the same city as the impostor posing as a bodyguard for Cleverley.

Price said: "The plaintiff was very upset and embarrassed by the article was not about to allow the item to go unanswered, so we brought this claim for defamation .. " Cleverley lawyer said he had never met the girl involved and the night of the incident was at home with his girlfriend in Manchester.

• The amount of damage is still being negotiated with the editor of the Sun, News Group Newspapers News International subsidiary, which will also pay for Cleverley.

means that the Sun Cleverley contacted before publishing the story.

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Leveson inquiry to hear expert evidence

Bankers and lawyers in the survey brief

as part of its bid to develop new version of the regulatory model after phone-hacking scandal

Two experts in banking and financial services were invited to make presentations to research Leveson in their attempt to reach a new model for regulation of the press since the phone hacking scandal .

Donald Macrae, a lawyer and consultant to advise governments worldwide, is one of six experts to attend a teaching session, October 5 at the Royal Courts of Justice.

Macrae, who has acted as advisor to the Government through nine departments until 2007, the World Bank is currently advising on projects in Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia.

It is one of six experts to present evidence on one of three teaching sessions are held prior to the survey launched in October Leveson.

a seminar on the technical aspects of hacking phone was held in private on Monday. A second briefing will be held on September 28, when the investigation is going to listen to Mark Warby QC, a leading silk in the media, entertainment and regulatory law.

The third teaching session, in which Macrae Discussion will be on October 5, and will be in the regulatory systems and models in different sectors and countries.

also spoke at the seminar will be the chief executive of Ofcom, Ed Richards, David Smith, deputy commissioner and director of data protection in the Information Commission, Guy Parker, Chief Executive Officer Advertising Standards Authority, Ian Woodman, a manager in the Financial Ombudsman Service. and Mark Thompson, consultant and editor of the website mediapolicy.org Open Society Institute

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Salmond urges Osborne to follow Holyrood's lead as Scottish unemployment figures fall

Prime Minister is the decision to accelerate capital spending in Scotland as "Plan B" is suitable for all UK

Prime Minister

of Scotland, Alex Salmond, George Osborne urged to reverse the deep cuts in spending after the employment figures further showed that the different policies in Scotland job creation were having a "powerful" effect.

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Salmond was sustained after the latest quarterly statistics showed that Scotland was the only part of the UK to see a decline in unemployment and a net increase of finding work, which seems confirm a tendency to one year.

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Scotland between May and July, while the unemployment rate fell in 3000, leading to a total level of 71.6% occupied. In the UK, the number of unemployed increased by 80,000 while total employment fell by 69,000, leaving 70.5% of the working population.

Salmond said the figures "very strong" were proof that the Scottish Government's strategy to accelerate capital investments last year, improving access to finance for SMEs and operating a policy of non-compulsory-redundancy in the public sector had been successful.

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Scottish Government has shown that job creation in the private sector was running at double the rate of loss of jobs in the public sector throughout the year. With the contraction with a reduction in expenditure, employment in public services has been reduced by 25,000 through attrition and voluntary departures, and had increased by 55,000 in the private sector.

In the last year, total employment rose by 36,000 in Scotland, compared to an overall increase in the UK for only 24,000.

However, these figures hide a sharp rise in youth unemployment, which stood at 45,000 in Scotland in July, after rising 10% yoy.

This strategy is threatened by the British government's determination to continue to reduce public spending and capital investment, said Salmond.

"I do not see this significant recovery in employment in Scotland, blown off course by the policies pursued or not pursued by the Chancellor of the UK, there is an obvious danger that," at he said. "I would say that each of these three aspects of the economic strategy for Scotland are absolutely necessary for a" Plan B "for the economy of the United Kingdom."

Salmond said his government's broader economic policies were also to increase confidence. Your council tax freeze since 2007, the abolition of prescription rate and the introduction of interest rate of 0% for small companies had helped boost economic recovery. The Scottish government has gone ahead with infrastructure spending, such as extensions of the M74 and M80 motorways and new hospitals.

• But his claims were disputed by the ministers of the United Kingdom, who believe that the analysis is too simplistic Salmond. Michael Moore, the secretary of the British government in Scotland, said that the macroeconomic policies of the conservative coalition led by the United States to stimulate growth, including low-income tax and increased tax concessions for new businesses , be effective in its own right.

This was supported by Christine Lagarde, the Director General of the International Monetary Fund last week, Moore said, before admitting that the long-term unemployment and youth were still important and necessary measures additional.

"Our plan has brought stability and confidence in the economy, and the abandonment of the plan could undermine the recovery and job creation," said Mr. Moore. "But we also know that reducing unemployment requires more than a return to growth: we must understand and address the causes of youth unemployment and durable too. "

Salmond admitted that his decision to bring forward capital spending last year the Treasury Department grant this year in Scotland, enabling you to accelerate investment, spending on the future. But he said the overall reduction of 40% of capital expenditure by the Treasury resumed significant damage.
also acknowledged that the British government's decision to speed up loan new powers to Scotland, giving a boost to access £ 230 000 000 this year, was also helpful. This will allow a new Forth Road Bridge to be built.

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Leveson phone-hacking inquiry: JK Rowling among 'core participants'

names to judge the figures to be able to provide research data on the phone hacking and media ethics and practice

Harry Potter, JK Rowling, who became known protecting your privacy is one of a number of public figures who are expected to testify at the judicial inquiry by Lord Justice Leveson in the ethics of hacking phones and media practices.

Rowling is one of 46 celebrities, politicians, athletes, public figures and other members of the public who believe they were victims of media intrusion granted "key player" status survey by Leveson Wednesday.

This means Rowling and other central participants can testify personally or by counsel, in his experience of the alleged involvement of media research, which begins in October in the Royal Courts of Justice.

The author of Harry Potter expressed his dissatisfaction with the press. In May 2008, won a legal battle to ensure the privacy of their children after photographs were published in the Sunday Express of his son as his wheelchair on a street in Edinburgh in a stroller.

others on the list, including Anne Diamond's ex-husband, Mike Hollingsworth, a former nurse was model and TV presenter Abi Titmus, Sheryl Gascoigne and Mark Oaten, the former MP, who has had to withdraw from Liberal Democrat leadership race after tabloid revelations about his sex life.

Parents of murder victim Diane Watson Leveson also in the medium before the list of participants, as well as parents and their teenage sister of Milly Dowler murder the victim, and the parents of Madeleine McCann. The son of the mass murderer Harold Shipman is also on the list.

Christopher Jeffries, who was arrested on suspicion of murder Joanna Yeates in December, but released without charge, were also granted the status of key participants. Subsequently, several newspapers successfully sued for libel.

number of celebrities who have had their phones hacked, including Hugh Grant, Sienna Miller and Calum Best are among the 46 names on the list of key participants Leveson.

MPs Chris Bryant, Tessa Jowell, Denis MacShane, Simon Hughes, former Deputy Chief Labour Lord Prescott also characteristic, with a handful of sports stars as jockey Kieron Fallon and former footballer Gary Flitcroft Premiership.

Rebekah Brooks, a former executive of News International in chief and publisher of the New World and the Sun, was denied his request to become a key player in it no longer works for the company to Murdoch, but she will be able to testify as a witness. He appointed a lawyer to act on your behalf which will be under the rules of the survey can ask questions. Jonathan Rees, a private detective who was at a stage used by the New World, is also applied to be a key player, arguing that "it could be a major criticism of him" .

• But Rees has also been denied the status of a key player on the ground that it was not significant enough interest for the first module of the survey. This program will focus on the relationship between the press and the public and does not extend only to allegations of phone hacking, but also other behaviors potentially illegal or unethical.

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News International, owner of the newspaper in the center of the phone-hacking scandal, the now defunct World News, The Sunday Times, Times and the Sun, was given the status of the participant as expected, as Guardian News & Media, owner of The Guardian newspaper, which published a series of revelations about hacking phones in the last two years.

editor of the Daily Mail and Associated Newspapers Northern & Shell Richard Desmond, owner of the Daily Express, Sunday Express and Daily Star, will also be key participants.

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Victoria Beckham woos New York with secondary line

printing cartoons and loose style of the brand of clothing brand

"I'm not that miserable cow, you know," said Victoria Beckham quarter of the fashion editors a little scared, all perched on the white sofas carefully in a large loft in Manhattan, in the d waiting for his last show. "And here, this dress?" Beckham continues as a model came out. "It looks like a giant Faberge egg, right? And it is our moon print. What's great."

Although Beckham did not just talk like a fashion stylist in the classic tradition, it seems that quickly.

After a particularly strong show of what is now known as the main line of his collection over the weekend, and the beginnings of his secondary line, Victoria by Victoria Beckham, the Monday afternoon that it was even better, there is no doubt that the Beckham brand has worked in the fashion world.

But if the fashion industry has had to adapt a little Beckham modus operandi, and adjust its cynicism built on renowned designers, Beckham is trying to evolve it .

Victoria by Victoria Beckham - as Marc by Marc Jacobs and See by Chloe -. It is designed as a branch of the main series, more expensive

But lower prices - and to be clear, we're talking relatively small floor Beckham-ishly, dresses from £ 650 to £ 1,400 and - means a greater number of customers which means more large, more convenient and attractive to women who do not necessarily look like Victoria Beckham.

and the main line of his collection for next season have shown a marked shift and it seems to be mainly inspired by own firm of Beckham, Victoria Beckham by Victoria collection was certainly a change of clothes clinging body with which most people associate Beckham.

• Instead, the focus was on loose, crepe, satin, jacquard and something called "summer wool" changes barely touched the body, some in bright colors like Kelly green and deep blue, and sprinkled with a few cartoon prints with smooth, a look in the closet now verboten Beckham.
• "I am very conversational prints this season," said Beckham, wearing a cat print dresses herself. ("I want a cat, but David will not let me have a - . Which is not to make mouse in the house, it is a dog lover, "he revealed)

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other moons, including and especially nice to change long sleeves covered in prints of clouds.

"feeling of other clouds in the back, it is more expensive, but ends the history of fashion," said the pop star turned into a designer with the confidence of someone who was nursed at the knee of a couturier.

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After this crisis, Britain may get the kind of EU it wants | Mats Persson

Its main proposals are failures, but the Franco-German summit also points toward Brussels to an intergovernmental model

The conclusions of the Franco-German summit earlier this week are not exactly a resounding success. The two main proposals: a tax on financial transactions (ITF) and a "golden rule" to be established in the constitution of each member of the euro area, have been proposed before and already looks dead in the water

As my school has argued for some time, an FTT would be suicide if the EU was alone - something that the Germans now seem open. Swedish Prime Minister Frederik Reinfeldt, said it best: "I do not believe in this idea ... Sweden is interesting, because we are the only country with real experience in this type of transaction tax is imposed if only part of a market. Our experience is that it provides small amounts of income, but the transactions on. "In the United Kingdom is responsible for approximately 73% of all financial transactions in Europe, and thus losing heavily in the absence of an agreement to share the load -. The Treasury has no choice but to strangle at birth proposal

Similarly, to implement the proposal of Sarkozy-Merkel, for reform "golden rule" constitutional for all eurozone members - legally cap the amount of debt they are allowed to accumulate - would be anything but simple. the Netherlands would be required to dissolve the lower house of parliament and new elections. In Italy, a two-thirds majority needed in both chambers, while in Ireland that could eventually be looking at a referendum, and so on. So why the two leaders are still in first place, given that his proposals will do nothing to stop the immediate crisis in the euro area, and are impossible to implement anyway? Give them credit, however, to find ways to defraud the market.

However, outside the content disappointing, the last of Sarko-Merkel office politics is very interesting for more reasons, particularly for the United Kingdom. Unfortunately, it was widely misunderstood in Britain and beyond.

First, it is one of a kind of great German plan once again become the dominant force in Europe - that nobody in Germany is interested in "colonial" countries in any form ( this is just the opposite - that Germany abstaining from voting in the Security Council of UN intervention in Libya). In all cases, the emphasis on a "golden rule" is derived from the traditional German economy of thought grow when subjected to clear rules, and desire (understandable) for a quid pro quo for the signing of Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain. It will not work, but there is nothing sinister here. Support for the FTA is based on a misunderstanding of how markets work.

• Second, the Franco-German proposal is a step into the "federalism in the EU" itself. In fact, the letter distributed by the two leaders are expected only a limited role for the European Commission economic governance in the euro area, with the Euro instead of 17 members to meet separately.

speaking in Brussels, this is called intergovernmentalism, often described as the opposite of federalism. It is the centralization of the participating parties, but gives Member States, rather than the technocratic Commission, the European Commission in the Federal Parliament or the European Court of Justice in the center. Why this theme? Because the reflexes tend to favor the British intergovernmentalism modeled around the decisions of sovereign states, rather than institutions based in Brussels. Far from the struggle against the British thought, the Franco-German proposal seems to strengthen it.

There is another reason why the agreement appears to be in line with what many British instinct in charge: variable geometry Europe. In response to this proposal was opposed in many capitals, the German Foreign Minister, Guido Westerwelle, said privately (according to the Financial Times Deutschland) that all Member States that do not implement the plans Franco- German "should not be allowed to leave the rest" to do so, adding that "there should be a more differentiated cooperation," probably both in the EU and the euro area.

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Are you sitting comfortably in the theatre? | Matt Trueman

As Ambassador Theatre Group began installing high-tech 49,000 seats across the country, I took my ass to test over the latest developments in the theater exit

Few things in life attract the same low-level grunts and theater facilities. Back in 2009 Adam Kenwright, CEO of the theater known as public relations agency, has suggested that "deeply uncomfortable and inconvenient" places of London retains public away. At that time, I was not convinced . "Magic Theatre" I wrote in this blog, "has always come from the stage instead of messages. It is the quality of performance, not the seats, which attracts viewers. "

But is it time to eat my words? Last month, Ambassador Theatre Group, the largest operator in the UK, theater, announced that it will update all and each of its 49,000 seats, 11,000 of them in the West End. In the coming years - the company is a little vague on how this happens quickly - each will be equipped with technology designed to enhance comfort through better posture ProBax (which is already used in Lotus cars and is currently on trial for aircraft carriers). If advertising is to believe, this could be one of the greatest revolutions in output Groundlings theater of Shakespeare and spent the second half of Hamlet was wondering if his legs would bear.

But the new seats to the expectations? Only one way to know: Seat-round tester for the day. I went to the fortune of the West End theater, where he was the first group of new seats installed. First a comparison and contrast, as I have the chance to try the old seats still up in the upper circle. Shipwreck in the old red velvet, ending in a sort of zig-zag. My weight is the seat base in the spring at an angle of 45 °, leaving my knees around my stomach. Bent back only adds to my intuition and I automatically turn to one side, supporting my weight with my elbow on the arm. Under normal circumstances, probably would not have thought twice, but within minutes the seat feels really uncomfortable.

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