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Murdochs will not be recalled to face culture committee
Today's key developments in phone-hacking scandal as they happen
12.51pm: John Whittingdale, the chairman of the Commons culture committee, said:
We have considered this morning the evidence we received last week from Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks and subsequent statements by certain individuals have raised questions about some of the evidence we have received.
As a result of that, we are going to write to ask for further details from various areas where evidence is disputed.
We are writing to Colin Myler, Tom Crone, John Chapman. We are also writing to James Murdoch to follow up on a number of questions which he promised us further information last week.
12.40pm: Labour MP Tom Watson has said that his attempt to recall Rupert Murdoch and his son James to give more evidence to the Commons culture, media and sport committee over phone-hacking has been voted down.
Watson revealed the rebuff by his colleagues at a news conference after the committee met today to discuss its next steps in its investigation of the scandal.
Further written evidence has to provided by 11 August. The committee will then decide which witnesses to recall.
MPs will write to law firm Harbottle & Lewis to see whether it can provide further evidence about the extent of the phone-hacking scandal now that News International has relaxed the confidentiality clauses in its contract.
12.35pm: Jonathan May-Bowles, who threw a pie at Rupert Murdoch last week, pastiched the media mogul's most distinctive line at the culture committee, emerging from court to say: "This has been the most humble day of my life."
12.32pm: Colin Myler, the former News of the World editor, and Tom Crone, the paper's former lawyer, have said Jame! s Murdoc h was wrong in his testimony to the culture committee last week.
Murdoch told the select committee that when he approved a big payout to Gordon Taylor, chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association, he did not know phone hacking at the News of the World went beyond one "rogue" reporter. But Myler and Crone released a statement saying they informed Murdoch of an email known as the "for Neville" email suggesting the practice went further.
12.32pm: Sky News is reporting that Colin Myler, Tom Crone and James Murdoch will not be recalled to the culture select committee. More as we get it.
Here are today's key developments in the phone-hacking saga so far today.
BSkyB has reported pre-tax profits of 1bn in the year to the end of June, as the company announced a 750m share buy-back to appease investors unhappy after the failure of News Corporation's bid to takeover the satellite broadcaster.
James Murdoch received a ringing endorsement from BSkyB directors yesterday. The satellite group's board meeting ended with support for Rupert Murdoch's youngest son to continue as chairman, after the collapse of the family firm's bid for the 61% of the satellite business it did not already own.
Jonathan May-Bowles, who threw a foam pie at Rupert Murdoch at last week's Commons committee hearing, has been convicted of assault and causing harassment, alarm or distress.
The chair of the Press Complaints Commission, Lady Buscombe, appears about to be the next victim of the phone-hacking scandal. She is said to be preparing to make a formal announcement of her resignation today.
The Guardian reported yesterday that Sara Payne, whose eight-year-old daughter Sarah was abducted and murdered in July 2000, has been told by Scotland Yard that they have found evidence to suggest she was targeted by the News of the World's investigator Glenn Mulcaire, who specialised in hacking voicemail.
We will have live coverage of all today's developments as they unfold.
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