15 May 2012 Last updated at 14:49 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Charlie Brooks said his wife, Rebekah, was the victim of a ”witch-hunt” Rebekah Brooks has expressed anger after she was charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice over the phone-hacking inquiry. Her husband, Charlie, three...
14 May 2012 Last updated at 13:15 ET Rebekah Brooks and her husband, Charlie, will be told on Tuesday if they are to be charged with perverting the course of justice. A solicitor for the couple said they would be informed shortly before 10:00 BST, when they answer police bail. An announcement on the...
3 April 2012 Last updated at 12:17 ET James Murdoch has resigned from his role as chairman of UK broadcaster BSkyB, but will remain on the board. The move is part of an effort to distance that company from the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World newspaper, once a Murdoch title. It...
29 February 2012 Last updated at 13:04 ET James Murdoch has stepped down as executive chairman of News International, the UK newspaper business that owns the Sun and the Times titles. The newspaper publisher has been tainted by phone-hacking allegations. The scandal led the company to close its News of the World title in...
27 February 2012 Last updated at 13:07 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers Police are investigating a “network of corrupt officials” as part of their inquiries into phone hacking and police corruption, a media inquiry has heard. Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers told the Leveson...
22 February 2012 Last updated at 13:57 ET Cherie Blair has started legal proceedings over phone hacking, her solicitor has confirmed. The wife of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, herself a prominent barrister, launched a claim on Tuesday. Mrs Blair’s solicitor Graham Atkins confirmed a claim had been made “in relation to the unlawful...
17 February 2012 Last updated at 14:02 ET Rupert Murdoch has told staff at the Sun newspaper in London he will launch the Sun on Sunday tabloid “very soon”. The News Corporation boss, 81, offered his support to Sun journalists at News International’s offices in Wapping. Ten current and former senior staff at the...
11 February 2012 Last updated at 14:13 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Five journalists at the Sun newspaper have been arrested by detectives investigating allegations of corrupt payments to the police News International owner Rupert Murdoch has said he is committed to publishing the Sun newspaper, following the arrest...
7 February 2012 Last updated at 08:09 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Lord Prescott: “If the public are to get the trust back in the press and the police we have got to keep an eye on them” The Met Police failed to warn people they were the victims...
20 December 2011 Last updated at 13:57 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Piers Morgan: “Everyone you talked to said that he (Clive Goodman) was being made a scapegoat” Former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan has told the Leveson Inquiry he was not aware of any phone hacking taking place...
