BT to recruit 150 engineers in Scotland

BT has announced plans to hire 150 new engineers in Scotland to help with its roll-out of broadband north of the border.

The majority of the posts – 90 – will be focused in the Highlands and Islands area, where BT was awarded the BDUK contract to bring fibre broadband connectivity to 85% of its homes and businesses by 2015. The project is being funded with a £126.4m investment from the government and £19.4m by BT.

The other 60 engineers will be taken on in Inverness, Fort William, Oban, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Dumfries and Galashiels, supporting both the BDUK projects in those areas and BT’s own £2.5bn commercial deployment of fibre, which together aim to bring connectivity to 95% of Scotland by 2017.

“The advance of fibre broadband across Scotland is good news in more ways than one,” said Brendan Dick, director of BT Scotland. “Faster broadband will help to fuel local economies across rural and urban Scotland and the jobs we’re creating are part of that.

“We’ve already had a great response for the posts in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Dumfries and Galashiels, and now we’re very keen to hear from people in Inverness, Fort William, Oban and Aberdeen. We’re looking for dynamic, customer-focused people with a can-do attitude who will help build the network infrastructure and deliver fibre products and services to homes and offices in and around these towns and cities.”

The jobs will be fixed-term contracts for 18 months and add to the existing 2,500-strong team BT boasts in the country specifically for its broadband projects.

Deputy first minister Nicola Sturgeon added: “Up to 150 new jobs is a welcome boost to the jobs market, presenting new business opportunities across the country. This is one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in the whole of Europe and will enable businesses to compete on the international stage.”

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Murdoch Tape: Scotland Yard Seeks Secret Recording

Scotland Yard detectives are reportedly trying to track down a secret recording of News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch in which he seems to admit to The Sun journalists that he was aware of the practice of making payments to public officials. A transcript of the recording was published Wednesday by British investigative website ExaroNews.

A police officer has made a formal request to ExaroNews for the tape, saying the police would seek a production order compelling the website to disclose the recording if it failed to do so voluntarily, The Guardian reported. It's also understood that the police have approached the U.K.'s Channel 4, which broadcast a small part of the recordings.

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On the tape, recorded during a meeting with roughly 25 Sun executives and journalists who had been arrested over allegations of illegal news-gathering practices including paying officials for information, Murdoch indicates that the bribing of public officials was widespread across national newspapers in the U.K.

At one point, according to the transcript published by ExaroNews, Murdoch says, "We're talking about payments for news tips from cops: That's been going on a hundred years, absolutely. You didn't instigate it."

Later, Murdoch hints that he was aware of bribery at the now-shuttered tabloid News of the World, which closed two years ago in the wake of a phone-hacking scandal, adding that it was the culture of Fleet Street.

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In a statement Wednesday, News Corp denied that Murdoch was aware of any bribery. "Mr. Murdoch never knew of payments made by Sun staff to police before News Corporation disclosed that to U.K. authorities. Furthermore, he never said he knew of payments. It’s absolutely false to suggest otherwise," the statement reads.

ExaroNews ' editor-in-chief told The Guardian that he had not given any material to Scotland Yard and the force had not made clear what they want or why they want it.

This development is the strongest indication yet that police in London are ready to examine Murdoch's comments in the recording. On Thursday, British politician Tom Watson urged U.S. and U.K. authorities to question the media mogul.