Sunday Round Up: Barack Obama, Twitter, BBC, The Guardian,Navyblue, Joey Barton
This week's Sunday Round Up includes accusations against the police, the media, liquidated design agency Navyblue the BBC by various sources.
Lawyers acting for the Guardian have claimed that threats made by police to force the paper to reveal its sources on the phone hacking inquiry are an ‘attack’ on the freedom of the press, says The Observer.
The BBC has been accused of an ‘extraordinary’ waste of money as it rents hotel rooms for staff covering the Olympics in London, who live just eight miles away. The Mail on Sunday claims that the move is likely to anger tax payers.
President Barack Obama’s Twitter account has reached 5 million followers, making him the third most popular user of the site, according to The Mail on Sunday. O’bama is third in terms of followers, behind Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber.
Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has claimed that the media has ‘an agenda’ against his new goalkeeper David de Gea. The Sunday Mirror reports that Ferguson commented: “There is an agenda from the media on de Gea.
“We experienced that again on Wednesday night. For some reason they seem to be desperate for the boy to fail. That’s the impression I get and I don’t understand it.”
A Peebles based print company has said that the closure of Navyblue will impact other companies owed money by the design agency. Brian Cockburn, a director of Caledonian Colour Printers, told The Scotsman that other small companies could also be forced to close as a result of the agency closing, without paying its debts.
Queens Park Rangers captain Joey Barton could be set for an FA enquiry after he attacked Wolves manager Mick McCarthy through Twitter. Barton, who recently set up a Twitter account, tweeted: “‘Wolves snubbed me’, I read in this morning papers. Ha ha (I) don’t know what Mick’s been smoking.”