BBC, Sky report naming of footballer

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Posted by TV Newsroom on Monday 23 May 2011

Sky News is reporting that Liberal Democrat MP, John Hemming, has named the footballer at the centre of a Super Injunction.

John Hemming said in the House of Commons: “With about 75,000 people having named Ryan Giggs on Twitter it’s obviously impractical to imprison them all”

About 10-15 minutes later Sky News broke the news:

BBC News as so far not reported this breaking development.

Update 17:00: BBC News: “MP names Ryan Giggs” ..

Update 18:30: ITV Evening News also reports that John Hemming named Ryan Giggs in the House of Commons.”

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