As feeble excuses go ...

[durham_rambler]

There are not many laughs in the News of the World phone hacking saga, but this story in today's Guardian made me laugh out loud:

Under the headline News of the World surveillance of detective: what Rebekah Brooks knew comes the story of how the newspaper was spying on a senior Scotland Yard detective, David Cook, who was investigating two murder suspects with links to one of the paper's reporters:

Scotland Yard chose not to mount a formal inquiry. Instead a senior press officer contacted Brooks to ask for an explanation. She is understood to have told them they were investigating a report that Cook was having an affair with another officer, Jacqui Hames, the presenter of BBC Crimewatch. Yard sources say they rejected this explanation, because Cook had been married to Hames for some years.