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**Maggy** · 29-02-2012, 09:15

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/29/wo...nt&tntemail1=y

Quote:

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

That's the US slant.

This is the UK stance
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-17200560

Quote:

A police horse lent to Rebekah Brooks by Scotland Yard was returned in a "poor condition", the Met has said.
The former News International chief executive, who remains on bail on suspicion of phone hacking and corruption, was lent the horse in 2008.
The horse, named Raisa, was returned aged 24 to the police force in 2010.
A Met spokesman said: "When the horse was returned, Raisa was regarded by officers from Mounted Branch to be in a poor but not serious condition."
The spokesman said Mrs Brooks had asked to home a retired police horse in 2007.

I suppose the scandal here was that this took place across one of the original phone hacking 'investigations' and is an example of the cosiness between the Met and the press.