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The article reports on the revelation of the British government papers which includes records of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's cabinet towards U. S. Prime Minister Ronald Reagan. It says that the documents offered new insights into fractious relationship with France. It tells that the toughest document was the diplomatic cable from Britain's ambassador in Washington at the time Sir Nicholas Henderson railing with President François Mitterand over French-made Exocet missiles.

LONDON -- It was a story that London's scandal-hungry tabloids, reeling for months from the scandal in their own backyard, could scarcely have dreamed up: Scotland Yard lending a retired police horse to the editor of one of Rupert Murdoch's newspapers at a time when the Murdoch tabloids were under investigation for the illegal phone hacking that has shaken Scotland Yard and the Murdoch papers to the core. It now appears to have been an innocent act of animal welfare, but celebrities and their animals are traditionally strong tabloid fodder, and the tale of Rebekah Brooks's horse proved irresistible, leading Wednesday's broadcast news bulletins and online news Web sites in Britain. Still, at first blush, the loan of the horse seemed to have a darker side, offering a new exhibit, the horse, to illustrate the once-cozy ties between the Murdoch papers and the police that have formed the backdrop to the scandals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the Great Britain's principal national news papers editors that met from Prime Minister David Cameron regarding an independent news media regulator establishment. It states that they declined Lord Justice Sir Brian Leveson most combative proposal for a law that puts teeth into state-sanctioned oversight system. It mentions that the law would risk gnawing 300 years in Great Britain press freedom by writing new regulatory system according to Cameron.

Examines the arrest of journalist Tony Geraghty of `The Sunday Times' of London, England, on the charge of violating the Official Secrets Act by publishing a material given to him without authority by an official. Authoritarian tendency of the British government; Highlights of the search and seizure of Geraghty's papers and personal effects; Nature of Geraghty's book `The Irish War.'

Reports on efforts by former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to endow a professorship at the University of Cambridge focused on free enterprise. Negotiations and considerations by the university of its academic integrity; The University of Oxford's rejection of a proposal to give Thatcher, an alumnus, an honorary doctorate; Thatcher's donation of her personal and political papers to Cambridge's Churchill College.

The article discusses the movement towards open access publishing of publicly-funded research in Great Britain, Europe, and Australia. Topics include comments by British Minister David Willetts in support of the findings of the Finch Group, a committee tasked with opening public access to research, comments by Michael B. Eisen of the Public Library of Science (PLoS) open-access publisher, as well as Great Britain's Wellcome Trust's endorsement of open access publishing initiatives.