The teams were deemed to be conspiring to throw games to one another and planning to split the first and second prize money, or both.

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Last week it was announced that Mrs Brooks and six other former News of the World journalists would be charged with conspiring to intercept communications.

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Darryl Finnie, 27, and a 29-year-old man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted conspiring to inflict injury on Mrs Coulter's son, Ronnie, in connection with the raid on her home.

BBC: Derek Clark admits attempting to murder Mary Coulter

Harsher sentences will not be imposed on four members of a traveller family convicted of conspiring to force vulnerable men to work.

BBC: Connors family forced labour sentences upheld

After all, Assange may be most vulnerable to accusations not of publishing classified materials, but of actively conspiring with Manning to obtain it.

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If events are conspiring to put the US economy on a permanently lower path, that could be even worse news for the rest of the world than it is for America.

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