Maria Miller didn’t jump – she was discreetly pushed
The official version of events is that the prime minister was taken by surprise by Maria Miller’s resignation, but my sources tell me the decision was made to “get rid of her”.
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News that George Clooney is to direct a movie about the phone hacking scandal has caused a buzz – but who should he cast? Channel 4 News’ Hayley Barlow has some tongue-in-cheek suggestions.
After two years of confinement inside the Ecuadorian embassy, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange calls a press conference and says he will leave “soon” – without giving any further details.
It was the trial that had everything – cats, pizzas, witches and Fairy Liquid. Here’s an alphabetical guide to what happened over eight months at the Old Bailey’s court 12.
Jurors fail to reach verdicts on two remaining charges facing the PM’s former spin doctor Andy Coulson and ex-NoW royal editor Clive Goodman, as the phone-hacking judge tells off politicians.
Former No 10 spin doctor Andy Coulson is found guilty of conspiring to hack phones while he was editor of the News of the World, but ex-colleague Rebekah Brooks is cleared.
Ukip leader Nigel Farage defends his suggestion that it would be right to worry about having Romanian neighbours. He was also grilled on his financial affairs and his partys view on homosexuality.
Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson tells a court that his affair with his former colleague Rebekah Brooks was “wrong” and “shouldn’t have happened”.
The official version of events is that the prime minister was taken by surprise by Maria Miller’s resignation, but my sources tell me the decision was made to “get rid of her”.
Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson agreed to pay a private detective to “monitor” the phones of three aides to the royal family, a court is told.
Tony Blair’s reported words of comfort and advice to Rebekah Brooks just as the News of the World had been accused of hacking into Millie Dowler’s phone will make some feel pretty squeamish.
Rebekah Brooks got advice on handling the phone hacking scandal from former Prime Minister Tony Blair who told her to use sleeping pills, and outlined a media strategy involving investigating herself.
Royal secrets read out in court as Prince William calls his future wife ‘babykins’, as the jury hears more allegations about the NOTW’s Clive Goodman. Here are five things we learned this week.
I went as a cub reporter for the Independent newspaper, and one of Mr Murdoch’s new recruits, film critic Barry Norman, made my day by inexplicably mistaking me for the actress Cate Blanchett.
Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson sent an email telling his news editor to “do” the phone of Calum Best, son of late George Best, the Old Bailey hears.
A prosecutor says three senior journalists at the defunct News of the World tabloid have already pleaded guilty to hacking phones.