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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Senior Met police officers, past and present, have accused News International of failing to cooperate with the phone-hacking inquiry.
For anyone who think the phone-hacking scandal represents a new low for the British media, here’s a reminder that other people have had it much, much worse.
News International has hit back at former prime minister Gordon Brown’s claims that journalists at The Sun and The Sunday Times “blagged” his financial, legal and medical information.
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.
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.
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”.
Assistant Commissioner John Yates admitted in 2009 that Met police officers who had been prosecuted for accepting cash from newspapers in exchange for information could still be working.
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.
“This is a matter which touches many aspects of our public life – politics, policing, and media ethics – and potential conspiracies between several of them.”
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.
Chris Jefferies, the landlord of landscape architect Joanna Yeates, was arrested this morning in connection with her murder. Jane Deith looks into the development.
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”.