Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Monday 18 Mar 2013

Some of the country's key newspaper groups, including the publisher of the Daily Mail and the Sun, are refusing to endorse the proposed new system of press regulation. One senior source said the groups were taking "high-level legal advice" before deciding if they could join the new watchdog. The deal hatched after prolonged cross-party talks included "several deeply contentious issues which have not yet been resolved with the industry", the dissenting newspaper groups said.

Dominic Elliott, a 23-year-old assistant to David Hockney, has died after being taken to hospital from the artist's home in Bridlington, East Yorkshire. A post mortem will be carried out tomorrow, but police said there were no signs of violence. Elliott acted as Hockney's driver and regularly assisted the 75-year-old artist by setting up his equipment. Hockney drew and painted Elliott on several occasions.

Vicky Pryce has been transferred to the East Sutton Park open prison near Maidstone after just four nights in Holloway. Her former husband Chris Huhne remains in Wandsworth prison. One of Pryce's fellow inmates is April Casburn, the former police chief jailed for attempting to sell information about the phone hacking investigation.

The British man and his 12-year-old son found dead yesterday in the French Alps after apparently falling while hiking near Mont Blanc have been named as Peter and Charlie Saunders. The Foreign Office said they had flown to the Chamonix area for a 'short weekend of adventure" but had slipped and fallen while hiking.

Two men plotted to rob and murder singer Joss Stone, a jury was told today. Kevin Liverpool and Junior Bradshaw are accused of driving from Manchester in a Fiat Punto to near Miss Stone’s home in Devon in June 2011. They deny charges of conspiracy to murder, conspiracy to cause GBH and conspiracy to rob.