At the center of the Barclays mess (other banks including JPMorgan Chase, Citi, UBS and Bank of America are also being investigated) is an October 2008 conversation that took place between Diamond and Paul Tucker.
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The MPs accused Barclays of trying to pull the wool over their eyes by publishing, before Mr Diamond's committee appearance, a note of a phone conversation between Mr Diamond and Paul Tucker, the deputy governor of the Bank of England.
Then a Paul Diamond effort broke to the unmarked substitute Conan Brown and he blasted the ball past keeper O'Kane for 1-07 to 0-06.
The diamond belonged to Ohio businessman Paul Monea, according to court documents.
Over the years, celebrities like Neil Diamond, Elton John, Bette Midler, Paul Simon, Billy Crystal and Rod Stewart have all headlined his events.
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Today, under cross examination by MPs, Bob Diamond may reveal more about his call with Paul Tucker, the man from the Bank of England who said senior Whitehall figures were pressurising him.
But Barclays was still raising the alarm a year later when former CEO Robert Diamond discussed Libor with current Bank of England Deputy Governor Paul Tucker in October 2008.
Barclays had released notes of a phone conversation between Diamond and the Bank of England's deputy governor, Paul Tucker, suggesting that politicians wanted Barclays to keep its rates low.
These senior people have now been named by the BBC's business editor Robert Peston: Paul Tucker at the Bank of England, and Bob Diamond at Barclays.
As it happens, Bob Diamond's note of his conversation on October 29 2008 with Paul Tucker, deputy governor of the Bank of England, implies he was having similar conversations with the ministers and officials of SW1.
Going around the diamond, other members of our all bottom-line team include catcher Paul Lo Duca, infielders Mark Loretta and Sean Casey, and outfielders Milton Bradley and Shannon Stewart.
The questions were focused on a note that Barclays released yesterday, which Diamond wrote after a key phone conversation with Bank of England deputy governor Paul Tucker, on October 29, 2008.
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National Memorial Arboretum curator Paul Kennedy is well placed to talk about the Queen in the Diamond Jubilee year, after meeting her during the three visits she has made to the Staffordshire site.
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And it was the visitors who were first to threaten as captain Paul Hartley's whipped corner was glanced wide by the head of Zander Diamond.
And if Paul Tucker at the Bank of England encouraged Barclays to lie, as is implied by Diamond's memo, would he have been justified in doing so?
That is world's apart from what Paul Tucker, deputy governor of the Bank of England, says he conveyed to Mr Diamond - and differs from Mr Diamond's recollection.
We are all understandably interested in what Bank of England deputy governor Paul Tucker and other senior officials may or may not have said about the Libor to Bob Diamond or other bankers, at the height of the credit crunch in 2008.
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