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Tony Blair with Rebekah Brooks
Tony Blair offered to act as an “unofficial adviser” to newspaper editor Rebekah Brooks when she sought his guidance at the height of the phone-hacking crisis at the News of the World, prosecutors have told the Old Bailey.
The former prime minister also allegedly advised taking sleeping pills during an hour-long conversation with Brooks in July 2011 - a summary of which the editor sent to boss James Murdoch in an email, the hacking trial was told.
Government will cover the cost of council tax discounts for flooding victims, David Cameron announced as he pledged to “continue to do whatever it takes” to help stricken communities.
Eve Muirhead claimed the curling Gods were against Great Britain’s women’s team after a stray brush hair contributed to their 6-4 Winter Olympics semi-final defeat to Canada in Sochi.
Italian supercar company Ferrari raced to a record year in 2013 on the back of expanding UK sales.
The day's news in pictures: February 19 2014
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