welcome to bbc news now three hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. prince interviews and reaction. harry has called on interviews and reaction. police and the financial regulator on police and the financial regulator to investigate mirror group newspapers after he was awarded £140,000 in damages in a historic lawsuit for phone hacking. the high courtjudge. mrjustice fancourt rules that phone hacking was rife within mirror group and that prince harry s personal phone was targeted between 2003 and 2009. he says 15 of 33 sample articles were the product of phone hacking or the product of other unlawful information gathering. the duke of sussex became the first senior british royal for 130 years to appear as a witness in court this summer, after he sued the publisherfor damages. the mirror group has apologised. a statement issued by the spokesperson for the publisher says, where historical wrongdoing took place, we apologise unreservedly, have taken full respon
we start in china where earlier today we got to see more evidence of its economic difficulties. new home prices fell for the fifth straight month in november while property investment dropped 9.4% over the year so far. retail sales growth missed forecasts but on the plus side, industrial output, what those factories churn out, expanded in november at its fastest pace since the start of last year. the world bank is forecasting that china s economy will slow next year, with annual growth falling from 5.2% to 4.5%. duncan wrigley is chief china economist at pantheon macroeconomics. he told us more about the economic data we ve seen come out today from china. the general picture is pretty soft, soggy. one standout piece of data, actually, is the accelerated decline in existing home prices. now, property market, as i m sure everyone knows, is very weak in china. but part of the process is going to be clearing some of the excess overhang. there s a lot of investment properties boug
that s a wouldn t be worth investigating. fific that s a decision for the police and the police have carried out investigations into mirror group newspapers and this had led to a small number of convictions. interestingly, some of the journalist convicted for doing unlawful activities whilst working for these newspapers have come to this core and given evidence that the other side, for those people who are claiming against those newspapers, they have become effectively whistle blowers. that has triggered a bit of an industry in this whole area of law, privacy cases where privacy cases are used to attack newspapers for unlawful practices in the past and then tried to seek damages from those. now, philippa, i m going to say thank you very much forjoining us and let you get out of the cold. we will have someone else to talk to on a second. just yourfinal comment someone else to talk to on a second. just your final comment on the importance of today s ruling. i importance of tod
let s renew more on that story. we can join let s renew more on that story. we canjoin our let s renew more on that story. we can join our correspondent in norwich. take us through what the police have told the bbc. fix, norwich. take us through what the police have told the bbc. police have told the bbc. a really siunificant police have told the bbc. a really significant developments - police have told the bbc. a really significant developments in - police have told the bbc. a really significant developments in the i police have told the bbc. a really i significant developments in the last few minutes. we ve had a statement from norfolk police who have been investigating the disappearance of gaynor lord. she was last seen here in the park behind me, and they were said from fairly early on, there was a high probability that she had gone into the water. that is gaynor lord, 35 year old married mother of three. we ve had this statement from the police, police searching for mi
that from the very beginning they thought this missing persons investigation, they treated nicola as high risk because she had specific vulnerability. they later clarified all that by telling us what those vulnerabilities wear. they said that nicola had alcohol issues and that she had struggled with the menopause, and that they had resurfaced in recent months. that provoked a lot of reaction. you heard that tweet from the home secretary. what followed was a lot of criticism, which perhaps the force was not expecting, from a number of groups who felt deeply uncomfortable that this kind of information was being released to the public, details of nicola s private life, three weeks into the investigation, and the questioned whether it was relevant, whether they had to do that at all. so the force was under a lot of scrutiny. lancashire police did inform nicola s family they were about to do this. they said that nicola would not have wanted that kind of information to be released.