Cabinet minister Chris Huhne was bounced into announcing that he was leaving his wife on Saturday night after an investigation by the News of the World into his affair with media adviser Carina Trimingham. The People is also claiming that it had the story, which went public at 4pm on Saturday so in time for all the Sundays.

UPDATE: See comment below from People news editor Lee Harpin who says that the Huhne affair revelation was down to their digging.

Unsanctioned stories about the love-lives of the famous and powerful are becoming an increasingly rare thing nowadays in the wake of the Max Mosley privacy decision and others.