Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Tuesday 16 Oct 2012

1. REBEKAH BROOKS 'GOT £7 MILLION PAY-OFF'

Rebekah Brooks, former chief of Rupert Murdoch's newspaper operations in Britain, received a total pay-off of £7m after resigning at the height of the Milly Dowler phone-hacking scandal in July 2011, far more than the £1.7m suggested at the time, the Financial Times reports. The figure surfaced on the eve of the News Corp annual shareholders' meeting.

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