Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Friday 15 Jul 2011

published 15 July 2011

Our popular news catch-up service is posted Monday to Friday at 8.0am. You can rely on it to keep you up to date through the working day with the main news talking points. Rebekah Brooks resigns Rebekah Brooks has resigned as chief executive of News International following a torrid fortnight which saw the closure of one of her papers, the News of the World, over the phone hacking scandal. Brooks said in a statement she needs to "concentrate on rebutting the allegations about my record". Tom Mockridge, the chief executive of Sky Italia, has been named as her successor. Rebekah Brooks quits as FBI launches 9/11 probe FBI TO PROBE NEWS CORP 9/11 HACK CLAIMThe FBI is to investigate claims that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp sought to hack into the voicemail of victims of the 9/11 attacks after US senators called for a probe. Earlier, it was alleged the company tried to buy a list of victims' numbers from a New York policeman. Yesterday, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch and James Murdoch all agreed to face a Commons select committee next week. Rebekah Brooks quits as FBI launches 9/11 probe Can James Murdoch still take over from his dad? NATO LEADERS GATHER TO SEEK LIBYA SOLUTIONA group of senior politicians from Nato countries, including Hillary Clinton, William Hague and the French and Italian foreign ministers is meeting today in Turkey to discuss seeking a diplomatic solution to Libya's civil war with leader Muammar Gaddafi. The group will also debate supplying more aid to rebels fighting his regime. MET CHIEF 'SHOULD RESIGN' OVER CONSULTANTSir Paul Stephenson, Britain's most senior policeman, is facing calls for his resignation after it emerged Neil Wallis, a recently-arrested former deputy editor of the News of the World, was employed as his adviser on £1,000 a day at a time when the Met were facing calls to re-open the phone hacking investigation in 2010. Coulson's deputy editor arrested over hacking The Mole: Cameron’s reputation is on the line over Murdoch crisis DAVE GILMOUR'S SON JAILED OVER STUDENT RIOTThe son of Pink Floyd guitarist Dave Gilmour has been jailed for 16 months for violent disorder during the student protests last December. Charlie Gilmour, who was photographed swinging from a flag on the Cenotaph in Whitehall, attacked the convoy carrying Prince Charles and Camilla. In a video clip from the march, Gilmour shouted: "We won't eat cake! We will eat fire, ice and destruction." Gilmour gets 16 months for protest ‘rampage’ BURGLARIES SOAR AS RECESSION BITESThe number of break-ins taking place in the UK soared by 94,000 last year, to hit a seven-year high of 745,000, or three every two minutes, on average. The rise is thought to have been triggered by rising unemployment. The police federation said the coalition should abandon its plans for 20 per cent cuts to UK police forces. MURDER INQUIRY AFTER HOSPITAL 'SABOTAGE'Police are to launch a murder inquiry after 12 hospital patients were wrongly given insulin via their saline drips, with two – already terminally ill – dying as a result at Stepping Hill hospital in Stockport. Insulin was used against victims by so-called 'angel of death', nurse Beverley Allitt, who murdered four patients in the 1990s. ALASTAIR CAMPBELL 'LEAKED MI6 SECRETS TO JOURNALISTS'Tony Blair's one time media manager, Alastair Campbell, has been accused by a senior MI6 officer of leaking secret information to journalists as the Government tried to put the case for war in Iraq. In evidence given to the Chilcot inquiry last year in secret and released today, the officer says Campbell was "an unguided missile". JAMES CORDEN TO PLAY BIG RON IN MOVIETV and stage star James Corden is to play 'Big' Ron Atkinson, former West Brom and Manchester United manager, in an upcoming movie about footballer Laurie Cunningham, the first black player to represent England in a competitive international. Corden plans to meet Atkinson, now 73, in order to study his mannerisms for the role. £161m LOTTERY WINNERS ARE NAMEDHusband and wife Colin and Chris Weir from Ayrshire in Scotland have been named as the winners of the £161m Euromillions jackpot. They scooped Europe's biggest-ever lottery win on Tuesday and were presented with a cheque today. The pair revealed that they were so excited they sat up all night waiting for the the claim line to open.