Yelland

I remember an Oxford dinner a couple of years ago when David Yelland, Murdoch senior's previous choice as editor of the Sun, complained that "Rupert has allowed the lunatics to run the asylum".

News of the World scandal: God's newspaper executive less than visionary 2011

David Yelland, who edited the Sun from 1998 to 2003, used Twitter to say: Sean Hoare was trying to be honest, struggling with addiction.

Sean Hoare: journalists remember 'old fashioned Fleet Street character' 2011

The crisis may be taking its toll on Brooks, according to some sources close to the company, who claim she is not sleeping well others who have seen her recently, including the former Sun editor David Yelland, insist she is on good form.

David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Co flock to pay homage at Rupert Murdoch's summer party 2011

The outstanding performances come from David Yelland as the King – general-like, raspingly crisp and terminally disappointed – and Desmond Barrit as Falstaff.

This Happy Breed; Henry IV, Parts One and Two – review 2011

■ Two currants, one Bun: while former Sun editor K MacKenzie was unleashing his bazookas of bombast against those who would question a clear blue Murdoch Sky, what was one of his successors, David Yelland – novelist, recovered alcoholic and PR expert – up to?

Wapping's bulls should pull in their horns in row over BSkyB takeover Peter Preston 2010

The test is not whether the story is true and its publication is in the public interest; the test, according to former editor of the Rupert Murdock-owned Sun David Yelland, is whether the story, regardless of its truth, "stood up."

Bennett L. Gershman: Shining a Light on Britain's "Gutter Press" Bennett L. Gershman 2011

David Yelland, another former editor of the Sun, told the inquiry in written evidence that he would talk to Murdoch "once a week or every two weeks".

Sun's switch to Tories was 'group decision', says editor 2012

Hannah Yelland as Laura had a particularly tough row to hoe as a decent, repressed, rather prim wife who finally has too much self respect to throw her dull and worthy husband over for true love, but they were all great.

Brief Encounter deliasherman 2010

The test is not whether the story is true and its publication is in the public interest; the test, according to former editor of the Rupert Murdock-owned Sun David Yelland, is whether the story, regardless of its truth, "stood up."

Bennett L. Gershman: Shining a Light on Britain's "Gutter Press" Bennett L. Gershman 2011

The crisis may be taking its toll on Brooks, according to some sources close to the company, who claim she is not sleeping well others who have seen her recently, including the former Sun editor David Yelland, insist she is on good form.

David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Co flock to pay homage at Rupert Murdoch's summer party 2011