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Theresa May, the Home Secretary, blamed Brodie Clark, the head of the UK Border and Immigration Agency’s ‘border force’, for ‘relaxation of border controls without ministerial sanction’. Mr Clark left the agency, declaring that what Mrs May had said in parliament was wrong. An online petition urging ministers to reduce immigration gained more than 100,000 signatures, making it eligible for a Commons debate. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are to live in the apartment at Kensington palace once occupied by Princess Margaret. A road-cleaning crew found a pot of gold jewellery in a drain in Slough.
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The News of the World was found to have hired private investigators last year to follow lawyers representing people whose telephones it had hacked, and a string of celebrities. James Murdoch, who was executive chairman of News International at the time, faced further questioning from the Commons Culture, Media and Sport select committee.
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