Search results for ‘Phone hacking scandal’
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Blair ‘offered to be unofficial adviser’ to Rebekah Brooks
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.
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Leveson inquiry: News Corp’s close links to Downing St
On the day David Cameron announced the establishment of an inquiry into media ethics in the midst of the phone hacking scandal, his communications director had dinner with a News Corp lobbyist.
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Brooks charge a ‘witchhunt’ and ‘waste of money’
Former News of the World chief Rebekah Brooks and her husband have hit back at the decision to charge them and four others with peverting the course of justice during the phone hacking scandal.
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Hugh Grant hacked off at meeting with the PM
Hugh Grant tells Channel 4 News he “doesn’t buy” the prime minister’s tough line on the media, and is looking for genuine reform in the wake of phone hacking scandal.
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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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Rupert Murdoch apologises in person to Dowler family
The mogul was “humbled” and held his head in his hands as he apologised to the Dowlers. In another dramatic day in the phone hacking scandal, Rebekah Brooks has resigned from News International.
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Andy Coulson and a career of controversy
As Andy Coulson is questioned by police about the News of the World phone hacking scandal, Channel 4 News takes a look at the former spin doctor’s controversial career.
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Ofcom ‘should halt Murdoch takeover if necessary’
MPs call for Ofcom to launch an immediate investigation into whether News Corp executives are ‘fit and proper’ people to run BSkyB in the wake of the phone hacking scandal.
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LIVE BLOG: MPs debate News of the World ‘hackgate’
Rupert Murdoch is standing by Rebekah Brooks as calls grow for her to resign from News International because of the phone hacking scandal. Add your voice to the live blog.
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Cameron on Coulson: right to give him ‘second chance’
David Cameron says it was right to give his communications director Andy Coulson a second chance, despite the phone hacking scandal at the newspaper he used to edit.
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Labour deputy PM on Sky/Fox takeover deal: ‘There are too many media organisations in too few hands’
I’m joined by the deputy leader of the Labour Party Tom Watson who played a significant role in bringing the News International phone hacking scandal out into the open.
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Rebekah Brooks returns as Murdoch newspaper chief
Rebekah Brooks is appointed chief executive of Rupert Murdoch’s News UK, a year after being cleared of phone hacking charges.
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Maria Miller resigns as culture secretary in expenses row
Maria Miller has resigned as culture secretary due to the row over her expenses, Downing Street says. She will be replaced by Sajid Javid, the MP for Bromsgrove.
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DCI April Casburn: ‘I was foolish to contact NoW’
A senior police officer accused of selling information to the News of the World over phone hacking says she was “foolish” to contact the paper but denies having ever discussed payment, a court heard.
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New texts reveal Cameron and Brooks’s close relationship
Prime Minister David Cameron faces fresh embarrassment over text exchanges with former News International boss Rebekah Brooks, after messages between the pair were published by a newspaper.