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This celebrity injunction will probably rebound – a case of the ‘Streisand effect’
Joshua Rozenberg: As a Scottish newspaper publishes details of a sex scandal, when does a legal fight to ensure privacy become a pointless exercise to restrict free speech?
Today’s headlines
The Guardian
The women abandoned to barrage of online abuse. P1, 10, 11, 26
Tax row: prime minister praises reporters who worked on leak. P7
Daily Telegraph
Head of BBC sport claimed for £7 kebab. P2
Speaker to stop MPs revealing celebrity couple in threesome. P10
Comment: Internet giants are like any other business – they can decay and die. B2
DMGT eyes ailing Yahoo. B3
Competition regulator puts brakes on O2-Three deal. B3
Financial Times
Brussels under pressure to block £10bn O2-Three deal. P1, 22, 23
Comment: In pop radio, the audience has always been king. P13
Analysis: Daily Mail and Yahoo – bottom fishing. P15
Daily Mail joins list of Yahoo suitors. P17, 18
SecureWorks on track to be first US tech listing of the year. P20
Security experts find ‘no cure’ for ransomware. P21
The Times
Diary: Media news. P11
BBC faces strikes over expenses cuts. P18
Top blogger defies ban by naming star in threesome. P13
Comment: This celebrity gagging order has become a farce. P27
Watchdog asks Brussels to bar £10bn O2 takeover. P37
Yahoo deal would let Mail turn hits to dollars. P38
UKTV beats Channel 5 to viewers. P45
Comment: No need for Sky’s gimmicks when you have the Voice of Golf. P60
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Game of Thrones keeps fans guessing. P15
Netflix boss hails rise of internet channels. P17
Sky’s Bundesliga monopoly to end. P42
Gaming Realms launches Britain’s Got Talent gaming site. P43
The New Day
All Irish cast to join Kat and Alfie Moon in EastEnders spin-off drama. P3
Game of Thrones cast glam up for season six premiere. P8
TV is our fondest memory. P8
Wall Street Journal
Al-Shabaab media officer executed in Somalia. A6
Daily Mail expresses interest in Yahoo. B1
Regulator seeks to block O2-Three deal. B3
Daily Mail
Waitrose’s latest TV advert … filmed by a cow called Mo. P3
Finance secretary asks media for Panama Papers. P9
Downton Abbey movie tipped for 2018. P28
BBC strike threat over expenses. P30
Call to block O2-Three merger. P65
DMGT in Yahoo bid talks. P66
BT’s Euro deal is seen as ‘mistake’. P73
Sky Sports suffers poor ratings for Masters. P73
Daily Express
Kevin Spacey says UK saved his career at Neflix programming showcase. P18
The Sun
Political blog names threesome gag celebrity. P1, 6
Six BBC executives claim more than £25k in six months. P7
Britain’s Got Talent coverage. P7
Ally Ross on TV. P13
Undercover viewers furious after spotting modern mobile phone in scene set 20 years ago. P19
Simon Cowell has secret X Factor dress rehearsal with Sharon Osbourne and Louis Walsh. P31
Daily Mirror
Watchdog slams huge mobile deal. P41
Daily Star
Britain’s Got Talent coverage. P1, 18
Gary Lineker blasts calls for him to take another pay cut. P3
Speaker bans MPs from naming celebrity behind injunction. P6
All-Irish cast for EastEnders spin-off. P22
