Mr Melding said asking closed, focused questions of ministers in committees in the public interest was "a high skill" and the costs involved were "not disproportionate".

BBC: Wales

The weekend closed with a panel wherein the members of the seminar faculty answered questions about the importance of liberty, strategies for advancing liberty, our worldviews, and so on.

FORBES: Thoughts on Liberty and Society

The Sunday tabloid closed earlier this month following numerous phone-hacking revelations, claims that journalists paid police for information, and wider questions about press regulation and media ownership.

BBC: Metropolitan Police starts computer hacking probe