Sorry for the short diary, this is being done in a foreign country on a public connection, so the least time spent on line the better. The news is worth the risk, however.
The Guardian and New York Times tell us Sky News has admitted that
Simon Cole, the managing editor of Sky News, .... one of its senior executives authorised a journalist to conduct email hacking on two separate occasions that it said were "in the public interest" – even though intercepting emails is a prima facie breach of the Computer Misuse Act, to which there is no such defence written in law.
Details and link below
More from the Guardian:
Gerard Tubb, the broadcaster's northern England correspondent, accessed emails belonging to John Darwin, the "canoe man" accused of faking his own death, when his wife, Anne, was due to stand trial for deception in July 2008. The reporter built up a database of emails that he believed would help defeat Anne Darwin's defence; her husband had pleaded guilty to seven charges of deception before her trial.
The same reporter accessed the email accounts of a suspected paedophile and his wife in an investigation that did not lead to any material being published or broadcast, according to a statement sent to the Guardian by Sky, which is part-owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.
Rupert, the Skye is falling!
I have been advised that the situation does not lend itself to keep up with comments.
I'll just add the link to the NYT story which broke about five minutes before I started the diary.
NYT report on Sky falling
Enjoy yourselves.