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BRITISH NEWSPAPER GROUP, Trinity Mirror, has for the first time admitted liability in over hacking the phone of four people who sued the group.
The four individuals had sued for alleged interception of their voicemails. BBC reports that the company, which publishes the Daily Mirror tabloid, said the allegations relate to hacking activity that occurred “many years ago”.
In a statement, the company said it has apologised to the people involved and as agreed to pay compensation.
It is reported that actresses Shobna Gulati and Lucy Benjamin, BBC creative director and entertainer Shane Richie will receive compensation.
The company also confirmed that six other voicemail interception claims have already been settled for agreed sums.
In 2012, it emerged that Sven-Goran Eriksson, the former England football manager, was among the four people who were bringing the claims to the High Court in London. The others included a former nanny for the Beckham family. These cases are among those that have already been settled.
The claims relate to the time during which CNN pundit Piers Morgan was the editor of the Daily Mirror.
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The knocking of everything single thing the government does is growing really tiring and so predictable. Incredibly boring
To be fair, anyone who ever announces in public how much money a new, untested, untried computer system is going to save deserves every bit of heckling they get, regardless of who they are or what office they hold. Tell us how much you *did* save in the last year, not how much you imagine you’ll save in the next year. Especially when you’re not qualified to build the system and probably don’t understand it well enough to know what’s likely to fail, what the limitations are, or what kind of maintenance costs we’re looking at.
We’ve got a very long history in the IT industry of people making dumb-ass promises about savings without a clue as to the what their systems do or are capable of doing, and looking terribly foolish a year later…
“Projected” savings.
I’m afraid I’ve no confidence in this shower when it comes to projections.
Happy to be proved wrong though.
Cost of new system … 42 million
I can’t see how its going to be more cost efficient for companies
Commercial vehicle tax and test(going up or harder to get
The taco’s for vehicled over 3.5.t,who pays for this?probably a few hundred euro.
Vehicle drivers Professional competence certificate(another 50e+
Road Transport operatiors licence(another 50e+
So there is yet another stealth tax forcing businesses to close
OU8
If the projected savings are achieved does that mean you are wrong and they are not ” a shower ” ?
And so says the Minister for Everything. Can’t stick to his own brief but must comment on everything. The only thing that saves him is that funny voice of his/’- nobody knows what he us saying.
He’s the minister for transport and this is transport related! Did you even read the article?
Oh yes I read the article and yes I understand its transport related. I am merely making an observation. Sort if I confused you.
Is it red tape to wrap around his mouth to finally get him to shut up?
I wonder will they undo the damage that the geen party inflicted on owners of commercial vehicles in regards to been able to tax them
You mean FF.
@ Eoin,
No he means the Green party. John Gormley himself was intimately involved. This was the greens hair brained idea to stop Dublin 4 honeymummies converting Porsche Cayenns’s into commercial vehicles. As usual despite all his denials at the time it put horrendous restrictions on trades people taxing vans. And then of course our wonderful public servants then came along and put their own additional twist on it
Not our fault thy get everything wrong . . . . Now is it
To tax a truck can cost thousands in Ireland but in N.Ireland it’s only several hundred euro. Good move by the minister.
Short sighted revenue on motor tax equals long term job losses.
When will these idiots realise competition is global and not localised.
Well at least it is clear recognition of 32m. in overheads loaded on to businesses by inefficient administration systems. Now how about the rest? Cut out red tape and the people manufacturing the red tape..
How much is it costing to save this 32 million?
This is a great move and it should be warmly welcomed.
To tax a small goods van for a small business last year I had to supply the following documents to the county council office:
certificate of ownership
certificate of insurance
goods only declaration (signed in garda station)
tax complicance cert (provided by revenue)
vat registration cert (provided by revenue)
approved weighbridge cert
DOE pass cert
Motor renewal tax form.
This represents a major headache for businesses. It took ages to round up all the forms. And several calls to state institutions (revenue, garda, county council) – which costs us all.
@ banderawhatever,
You’re lucky you’re not in county Louth. They also want you to go to the local Gara station and get them to sign a form stating that there’s no seats in the back as well. Just for clarification. All of this sH1t is done by way of an advisory note not statute.
Will cost 33m to install
Of course it will, just like PPARS.
Would love to be proved wrong on this but Governments (not just here) have a poor record on delivering IT systems on time and on budget.
Would that be like the evoting machines then?
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