Rupert Murdoch

Exclusive: Former Metropolitan police detective and Crimewatch presenter Jacqui Hames tells Channel 4 News she felt “hunted” by private investigators alleged to be working for the News of the World.

The Serious Fraud Office confirms it is considering calls for it to launch an investigation into News Corporation.

Prime Minister David Cameron will delay Parliament’s summer recess after Britain’s most senior police officer became the latest victim of the phone-hacking scandal.

With today’s resignation of Assistant Commissioner John Yates, following yesterday’s decision by Sir Paul Stephenson to stand down, is the Metropolitan Police now a “rudderless ship”?

Exclusive: Channel 4 News has learned that a former senior journalist at the News of the World worked as a translator for the Met Police, whilst he was employed by the newspaper.

Exclusive: Channel 4 News reveals a new front in the Murdochs’ legal woes as the Serious Fraud Office begins a preliminary investigation into News International.

Rebekah Brooks says she is “helping police with their enquiries” after being arrested at an appointment in connection with allegations of corruption and phone hacking. She has been released on bail.

Ed Miliband has called for Rupert Murdoch’s empire to be broken up, saying he has “too much power over British life”.

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson announces his resignation as the phone hacking scandal claims its latest victim. Read his full statement here.

A full page apology from Rupert Murdoch has been published in newspapers, as the scandal spreads to the US where former News International head, Les Hinton quit his post as CEO of the Dow Jones.

Veteran Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein tells Channel 4 News that Rupert Murdoch “intimidated journalism” and created a culture of manufactured controversy and sensationalism in his newsrooms.

When Peter Mandelson was on the brink of resigning from government the first time many people wondered how a man so expert at public relations and political instincts seemed to have so little understanding of his own position. So it seems with the Murdochs and News Corp. A family and corporation so expert at communication, at capturing what the public wants and feels seems to have taken almost every wrong step possible handling the crisis.

Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson stayed with Prime Minister David Cameron at Chequers in March, several weeks after he quit as the PM’s communications chief over phone-hacking allegations.

The failure of News Corporation owner Rupert Murdoch to take editorial control of his newspapers led to an excess of “celebrity gunge” and ultimately the phone-hacking scandal, one Lord says.