Further encouraging services of public interest and duty, the group are pressing to ensure the BBC acts in favour of the public, not profit and to consider secure and transparent long-term sources of funding. Of equal importance to the coalition and of great public interest is for the government to implement Lord Justice Leveson's proposals in full.

Rupert Murdoch's protege is set to return to his empire after being acquitted of charges in a phone-hacking and bribery scandal.