Brooks volunteered arrest? From a police officer inside Scotland Yard: Rebekah Brooks presented herself at Metropolitan Police, immediately and voluntarily confessed to a crime, and asked to be arrested.

Papers along for the ride. Is there any truth in the allegation a tabloid newspaper in Australia hired investigative security firms to fix clandestine electronic tracking devices to the cars of unknowing private individuals, in which the paper has an interest, for the purposes of scandal and character assassination? Surely not …

Adler broadcasting online. Rodney Adler — a director of the disastrous One.Tel and jailed over his role in the collapse of insurer HIH — wants to clear the air. And he’s set up a new website to do it …

“Over the years, a lot has been written about me — both good and bad; some fair, much of it not. I will be using these web pages both to set out the facts about my past, and some of the lessons I have learned for the future.

“The Australian economy is at a crucial stage in its development and — as the former CEO of a top Australian integrated financial services company, and someone who remains active in business today — I hope my ongoing contribution will be of interest to you.”

The website is still “under construction”, but he’s already taking feedback. We await his learned advice.

Gillard to launch Nixon book. Thanks to Melbourne University Publishing for an invitation to the launch next month of Fair Cop, the tell-all book from ex-Victorian police commissioner and bushfire reconstruction chair Christine Nixon (co-written with Jo Chandler). Nixon, apparently, is “frank and engaging” on her career, including the “enemies within her own ranks” and the “controversy” around her movements on Black Saturday and that infamous lunch and hairdressing appointment. Also interesting, we thought, was the woman launching the book — none other than the Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

Sunday Mail on message for Bates. Queensland LNP member Ros Bates believes local tabloid The Sunday Mail is so on message she republishes its words — unattributed — on her website. The SMail‘s yarn on delays to building reforms was reproduced here.

The case of the canned fruit. We generally prefer to leave consumer advocacy to those nightly “current affairs” shows, but expat Crikey reader Andrew Mellis’ decade-old investigation deserves recognition. We’ll leave it to Grimshaw and White to follow up …

“We had in the past felt that the store brands were simply not up to scratch. To prove this we bought canned fruit (peaches, apricots and pineapples) from various sources. Coles, Woolies, Franklins IGA, and named brands  like SPC, Goulburn Valley and Golden Circle. When we arrived home we emptied the contents in to various bowls, drained the liquid through a strainer and weighed the contents. At the time we did this Franklins had the lowest content of fruit followed by Coles and Woolies. IGA was markedly better while the brand names contained the highest percentage of fruit. Golden Circle’s pineapple pieces and slices had the highest percentage of fruit. From this we strongly believe the containers should be marked with the nett amount of fruit not the nett weight which includes the water. Maybe you could update these figures as I have lived in China for the past 10 years and our results are 10  to 15 years old. But knowing the pressure for profits over health and well being we don’t believe anything would have changed during this period. In effect this meant that the more expensive brands had more value per dollar than the store brands. Value dollar for dollar it was better to buy fresh whenever possible and make these parasites bleed. If the farmer or green grocer try to sell 60% water as was the case in some cans there would be a human outcry but these greedy entrepreneurs have found a way to beat the system and nobody is doing anything about it. P.S: We never had a reply from the big stores regarding this at the time. When we return to Australia in two years we will definitely be checking the contents out again on products that we cannot buy fresh.”