The music scene has a new entry from Europe. Spotify will join the ranks of iTunes, Pandora, Amazon. Spotify launching in the US tomorrow — Engadget http://engt.co/qoyE1v

"For those who want to invest right away, the $4.99 gives users an ad-free experience and the $9.99 level makes it possible to use Spotify with mobile devices, including an offline caching feature."

It was claimed that she was in tears as she broke the news but was immediately asked to leave the newsroom by the paper’s present editor Colin Myler, a highly regarded Fleet Street veteran, and had to be escorted out by security.

Staff were said to have cheered when told that Mrs Brooks had offered her resignation on Wednesday night, although it was turned down. A source said: “The joke ran through the room that we would accept the offer on the company’s behalf. We were all feeling fatalistic.

“Colin told us that the decision to close the paper had been made in New York, that as soon as the suits there saw that the shares had started to slide they thought they had to cut us off.