MPs debate News of the World phone-hacking claims
Gary Gibbon blogs on the Commons exchanges between MPs regarding allegations News of the World reports hacked into phone messages of leading figures – claims the paper has denied.
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Milly Dowler’s family have been told by police that the News of the World may have hacked the phone of their daughter Milly while she was missing.
As Lord Prescott and three others win a bid to launch a legal challenge over police handling of the phone-hacking case, Brian Paddick tells Channel 4 News the ruling is a “major breakthrough”.
Police investigating claims that the News of the World hacked into people’s mobile phones arrest the paper’s former head of news and its current chief reporter, as Carl Dinnen reports.
The acting head of the Metropolitan Police faces questioning over the handling of phone-hacking allegations at the News of the World after a fresh criminal investigation is launched.
Twelve men have been arrested in a major anti-terrorism operation in Cardiff, Stoke-on-Trent and London. Midlands Correspondent Darshna Soni says the arrests in Stoke were “low-key”.
Police have questioned David Cameron’s Communications Director Andy Coulson over phone hacking allegations while he was editor at News of the World.
A former colleague of Andy Coulson tells Channel 4’s Dispatches David Cameron’s communications director knew about hacking and listened to tapes when he was News of the World editor.
A fresh probe has been launched into allegations that prominent public figures had their phones hacked by News of the World journalists.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has told the House of Commons it is up to the “police and the police alone” to decide how to proceed over the News of the World phone-hacking row.
Gary Gibbon blogs on the Commons exchanges between MPs regarding allegations News of the World reports hacked into phone messages of leading figures – claims the paper has denied.
The Home Secretary says it is up to the police to decide whether to probe new evidence about alleged phone-hacking by News of the World journalists, writes Political Editor Gary Gibbon.
Assistant Commissioner John Yates micturated on some of The Guardian’s allegations this evening. Cameron HQ thinks its man Andy Coulson is through the worst of it and they’ve won the battle. So is that it?
Detectives say they have “formally linked” the murder of a clergyman killed in his vicarage with the killing of a pensioner last month.
Private detective Glenn Mulcaire’s notebooks suggest he may have hacked phones for the Sun and the Daily Mirror as well as the News of the World, the Leveson inquiry hears. Andy Davies reports.
Not very disciplined,” was how one Shadow Cabinet member close to Ed Miliband described Ed Balls’ touting of Yvette Cooper as a future Labour leader – Political Editor Gary Gibbon writes