Micheál Martin has a very valid point when he said he found it amazing that after four years in office the Government’s only policy on media diversity was to avoid having a policy, writes Alison O’ Connor

Former Sun and News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks is expected to lift the lid on her close relationship with British Prime Minister David Cameron in evidence to the Leveson Inquiry today.

David Cameron texted Rebekah Brooks telling her to “keep her head up” in the week that she resigned as chief executive of News International, it has been alleged.

St James’s Palace today denied a report in the Spectator magazine that the Queen has ‘‘grudgingly’’ agreed to the marriage of the Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles.