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Wide of inquiry in session2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International: (talking about Prime Minister David Cameron and the BSkyB) \"Mr Cameron always made it very clear that it was... that he'd...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Wide of inquiry in session\u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International: (talking about Prime Minister David Cameron and the BSkyB) \u003cbr/\u003e\"Mr Cameron always made it very clear that it was... that he'd turned it into, or it was a quasi-judicial decision and it wasn't him and it was office rumour and he.... he I think had been lobbied by lots of other people so, I would say no, it wasn't particularly shared, he was always very even-handed about it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Jay QC, counsel for the Leveson inquiry: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Why were you discussing the issues letter with Mr Osborne at all?\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International: (talking about the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the BSkyB bid) \u003cbr/\u003e\"My memory from the dinner was that it was with my husband and I, Mr Osborne and his wife, and Mr Lewis and his wife. So it was the six of us in a restaurant, more of a social occasion, but, like I said in my witness statement, I probably brought it up, but I can't remember, but there would have been part of the dinner I would have discussed our frustration perhaps at the time of what was going on. So I don't know whether I brought it up or George. But we did discuss it at that dinner.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Jay QC, counsel for the Leveson inquiry: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Was any of this news to you Mrs Brooks?\"\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International: (talking about an email from News International Public Relations man Frederic Michel about Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt) \u003cbr/\u003e\"It was.\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"Was any of it surprising to you?\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think it was news to me and therefore could be surprising, yes, probably.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Jay QC, counsel for the Leveson inquiry: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Were you the go-between in an increasingly fraught father-son relationship?\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International: (talking about being a go-between between Rupert and James Murdoch \u003cbr/\u003e\"No. They could speak to each other.\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"Sorry, I didn't hear that.\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"No. They were very happy to speak to each other.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Jay QC, counsel for the Leveson inquiry: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Whether or not you discussed phone hacking issues with him.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International: (answering a question phone hacking and contacts with police, including Acting Deputy Commissioner at the Metropolitan Police John Yates) \u003cbr/\u003e\"I'm pretty sure though I attended the Police Bravery Awards right up until.... as you can imagine, right up until 2011 and he was always there. And I can't remember when the Guardian first.... I think the Guardian broke their story in July 2009 and there was a Police Bravery Awards. It's usually in July. So I don't want to absolutely rule out the fact that I may have mentioned it him because he was often around. But I don't remember a sit down conversation where we discussed it at any length.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Cutaway of Robert Jay QC, counsel for the Leveson inquiry \u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International: (paid overlaid with question from Robert Jay) \u003cbr/\u003e(answering a question about former British prime minister Gordon Brown's son Fraser having cystic fibrosis and how the father of another child with the condition obtained the information) \u003cbr/\u003e\"I'm not going to say, Mr Jay.\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"Why not Mrs Brooks?\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"Because if you knew where the father's information came from it would identify the source and I'm not going to do that.\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"Are you saying that the information came from a charity?\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"No, I'm not. I'm saying that because the source also had a child with cystic fibrosis, he was aware and in the.... it was the fact that he had a child with cystic fibrosis is how he came to know.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Jay QC, counsel for the Leveson inquiry: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Did you have a conversation with Mr Balls about Sharon Shoesmith?\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International: (paid overlaid with question from Robert Jay) \u003cbr/\u003e(talking about Haringey children's services director Sharon Shoesmith over local authority failings in the case of Baby Peter) \u003cbr/\u003e\"Yes. It will have been discussed.\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"It will have been or was discussed?\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"Yes. It was discussed.\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"Was the purpose of the call specifically to discuss Sharon Shoesmith?\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"No, it wasn't. It was to discuss the case and also to try and understand why Haringey Social Services were allowed to do their own review into their own conduct over Baby Peter.\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"During the course of the discussion you had in relation to Sharon Shoesmith, did you indicate to Ed Balls that you wanted her sacked?\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"Mr Jay, I didn't tell Ed Balls to fire Sharon Shoesmith. It was very obvious from the coverage in our paper that we had launched a petition because the government were refusing to do anything about the situation.\" \u003cbr/\u003e15. Close-up of Lord Justice Leveson \u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide of Rebekah Brooks leaving the inquiry \u003cbr/\u003eThe former editor of Britain's News of the World and the Sun tabloids gave evidence at the country's media ethics inquiry on Friday. \u003cbr/\u003eForty-three year old Rebekah Brooks, who resigned in July as Chief Executive of News International, Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper division, told the inquiry of her close ties to those in power.\u003cbr/\u003eBrooks' evidence on Friday has meant Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt faces fresh questions amid claims that he wanted News Corporation to \"guide his and No 10's positioning\" on phone hacking.\u003cbr/\u003eA newly-disclosed email from News Corporation's public affairs executive Fred Michel also boasts of a tip-off about an \"extremely helpful\" statement the Culture Secretary was making to Parliament on the BSkyB bid.\u003cbr/\u003eThe allegations surfaced in material disclosed to the Leveson Inquiry by Brooks.\u003cbr/\u003eA message from Michel to Brooks, dated June 27 2011, gave an apparent preview of what Jeremy Hunt would say about the BSkyB bid later that week.\u003cbr/\u003eThe email stated Hunt wanted to \"prevent a public inquiry,\" instead suggesting Parliament's Joint Committee on Privacy and Injunctions should carry out a wider investigation.\u003cbr/\u003eHunt had been supposed to be acting as an impartial judge to decide whether to approve the takeover or refer it to regulators.\u003cbr/\u003eA month later reports emerged that Milly Dowler's mobile phone had been accessed, causing a public outcry and leading British Prime Minister David Cameron to launch the Leveson Inquiry.\u003cbr/\u003eBrooks was asked about a number of topics on Friday and said there was nothing inappropriate about her dealings with senior police officers.\u003cbr/\u003eShe handed a list of meetings with senior officers and commissioners between 1999 and 2010 to the inquiry into press standards.\u003cbr/\u003eHer records include meetings with former Metropolitan Police head of communications Dick Fedorcio, as well as former commissioners Sir Paul\u003cbr/\u003eStephenson and Sir Ian Blair, and former assistant commissioner John Yates. \u003cbr/\u003eSir Paul Stephenson and Yates both resigned over the controversy over the hiring of ex-News of the World deputy editor Neil Wallis as a consultant.\u003cbr/\u003eFedorcio, who has also resigned, has told the inquiry that he hired Wallis because he wanted someone he knew and trusted.\u003cbr/\u003eBrooks said meetings with senior police officers would sometimes include the Sun's crime editor, and may have sometimes been about the Sun-backed Police Bravery Awards.\u003cbr/\u003eShe said at the bravery awards, she saw journalists come into contact with officers from the Metropolitan Police, as well as from across the country.\u003cbr/\u003eShe said some meetings with senior police officers would take place at restaurants as they were \"neutral.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAfter she became editor of the Sun in 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