Cameron prepares for turbulent time
Channel 4 News’ Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs on David Cameron’s imminent return to deal with the phone-hacking scandal.
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Four key police figures learn they will not face IPCC investigation over the phone-hack scandal, but a policing expert tells Channel 4 News the affair remains a “bad omen” for the UK’s top officers.
In the run-up to the Olympics the Met Police are dealing with chaotic scenes of violence on London streets. Channel 4 News asks a former senior officer if plans for London 2012 will be affected.
Investigating the hacking affair is turning into an industry of its own, with more than 10 bodies tasked with probing the scandal and its aftermath. Who are they?
David Cameron has made an emergency statement to MPs on phone hacking as MPs quiz the PM again on his party’s links to News International.
MPs accuse Scotland Yard of a “catalogue of failures” over the phone-hacking investigation in a damning report on the scandal..
A senior source in Scotland Yard tells Channel 4 News that the investigation into phone hacking “could take more than five years”, as the force boosts the number of officers on the case by a third.
Channel 4 News’ Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs on David Cameron’s imminent return to deal with the phone-hacking scandal.
Dick Fedorcio says he approached John Yates to carry out “due diligence” on former NoW executive Neil Wallis – a claim which Mr Yates denied in his evidence.
As Britain’s most senior police officer becomes the latest victim of the phone-hacking scandal, Jon Snow says comparisons with Watergate are not exaggeration.
John Yates of the Met Police becomes the second top-level police officer to resign because of the News of the World phone-hacking crisis, as Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon reports.
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.
Senior Met police officers, past and present, have accused News International of failing to cooperate with the phone-hacking inquiry.
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.
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.