Many local government officials, businesspeople and media personalities in Iceland are on higher wages than the Prime Minister, it has come to light. Read the full story

According to former Central Bank of Iceland governor, David Oddsson, his British counterpart, Mervyn King, faithfully promised that Iceland would not have to pay anything for Icesave in the event of Landsbanki’s demise. The governor of the Bank of England denies the claim. Read the full story

Iceland’s former central bank governor sent Timothy Geithner, governor of the US Federal Reserve, a letter on 24th October 2008 requesting a billion dollar loan. Read the full story

In April 2008, the then-head of the Central Bank of Iceland, David Oddsson sent a formal request to his counterpart at the Bank of England, Mervyn King, to implement a currency swap agreement between the two countries, Althingi’s new collapse report states. The request was rejected. Read the full story

David Oddsson, Iceland’s former Prime Minister and central bank manager and current joint editor of Morgunbladid newspaper, will be overseas when the Althingi report into the banking crisis is released on Monday. Read the full story

Robert Boyes, Times correspondent and author of the new book Meltdown Iceland, says that everyone except Icelanders knew the Icelandic economic collapse was approaching as early as 2006. Read the full story

Icelandic newspaper DV claims that some 10,000 subscribers have given up rival paper, Morgunbladid since former Prime Minister and central bank manager David Oddsson was appointed editor. Read the full story

The parliamentary president’s committee has decided in a meeting on Wednesday that it will terminate its Morgunbladid subscription for MPs. The Icelandic parliament has, up until now, paid for each Member of Parliament to receive a daily copy of the newspaper. Read the full story

Former Icelandic Prime Minister and head of the Central Bank of Iceland David Oddsson has been hired as the new editor of Morgunbladid, the country’s most influential and widely bought newspaper. Former Vidskiptabladid editor Haraldur Johannessen will be co-editor and Sigurdur Mar Jonsson will take over at Vidskiptabladid, Iceland’s business and financial newspaper. Read the full story

David Oddsson, former head of the Central Bank of Iceland (CBI), gave a controversial speech to the Independence Party conference on Saturday. In the speech Oddsson accused his replacement Svein Harald Oygard of either lying or suffering from a very serious case of Alzheimer’s disease. Read the full story