Jon Snow
Britain's Watergate? Mea Culpa!
What a fertile garden for weeds to take root: this infernal coalition of failure is precisely why this does indeed represent Britain’s Watergate moment, blogs Jon Snow.
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Met accused of phone-hack failures
MPs accuse Scotland Yard of a “catalogue of failures” over the phone-hacking investigation in a damning report on the scandal..
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Met employed 10 more ex-News International staff
Ten former News International staff have worked at the Met Police, outgoing Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson revealed as he defended the Met’s role in the phone-hacking scandal in front of MPs.
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Murdochs and Brooks face MPs’ grilling
News Corporation bosses Rupert and James Murdoch, and former executive Rebekah Brooks, are set to be quizzed by MPs over the phone-hacking scandal.
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Cameron due home to deal with phone-hack crisis
The Prime Minister is to fly home early from his visit to Africa to make a statement to MPs on Wednesday on the escalating scandal over phone hacking.
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Met Police faces MPs over phone hacking
Former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson, who resigned on Sunday, kicks off police evidence to MPs over the phone-hacking scandal.
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LIVE BLOG: the Murdochs and Rebekah Brooks face MPs
The “most humble” day of Rupert Murdoch’s life, apologies, regret, revelations and foam pie. As MPs grilled the key players in the phone-hack crisis, here’s how the day unfolded – start at the bottom.
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Filkin returns to probe relations between press and police
The former head of Westminster’s sleaze watchdog enters the phone-hacking fray nine years after she accused MPs of hounding her out of office.
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Metropolitan police chief Sir Paul Stephenson quits
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson announces his resignation as the phone hacking scandal claims its latest victim. Read his full statement here.
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Party leaders unite against Murdoch BSkyB bid
David Cameron joins the Liberal Democrats in support of Labour’s motion calling on Rupert Murdoch to drop his takeover of BSkyB in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal.
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Met chiefs face grilling by MPs over phone hacking
Four current and former Metropolitan police chiefs are set to be grilled by MPs about Scotland Yard’s failure to uncover the scale of the phone hacking scandal during the initial police investigation.
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News International ‘failed to cooperate’
Senior Met police officers, past and present, have accused News International of failing to cooperate with the phone-hacking inquiry.
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News of the World bows out
Sales of the final edition of the News of the World jump 30 per cent as the Sunday tabloid apologises, telling its readers: “Quite simply we lost our way”.
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Gary Gibbon
It’s not just Rebekah in the frame in phone hacking row
Our Political Editor says it’s not just the News of the World being put on the spot over phone-hacking. MPs are also asking questions about the police handling of the inquiry.
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Jon Snow
Is there a conspiracy anywhere within the hacking scandal?
“This is a matter which touches many aspects of our public life – politics, policing, and media ethics – and potential conspiracies between several of them.”
