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Kelvin MacKenzie told the then News International boss, Rebekah Brooks, and Sun editor, Dominic Mohan, he was quitting as a columnist in 2011 because he thought they had kept the full extent of phone hacking from him, according to evidence presented as part of a civil case against the newspaper's publisher on Thursday.

The police cited a narrow definition of phone hacking from the DPP as the reason behind its limited original investigation.

Not exact matches

Noticeably absent from the exhaustive coverage of the phone - hacking scandal and its widening fall - out is a strong statement from Murdoch himself.

The big box retailer said that a probe into the hacking of customers» personal data found that stolen information — separate from payment information already reported — included names, mailing addresses, phone numbers or email addresses for tens of millions.

He will be confronted with evidence from a number of witnesses who have called into question his claim that he knew nothing about the practise of phone - hacking being widespread when he signed off a # 400,000 payment to Professional Footballers» Association chief executive Gordon Taylor.

The police have had a lot of bad press of late, from phone - hacking, to Hilsborough, to Andrew Mitchell.

Its legal representative at the inquiry, Neil Garnham QC, told Lord Justice Leveson that critics of the police were in danger of «looking at this through the wrong end of the telescope», as it was far from clear private investigator Glenn Mulcaire's notes that a large number of people were victims of phone - hacking.

That's not a particularly difficult thing to do, given that Cameron hired Andy Coulson to be his communications boss after he'd resigned from the News of the World over, well, phone - hacking.

14:46 - Next question from Whittingdale - who was involved in phone - hacking at the News of the World?

The subsequent spanking coming their way may be even more epic this time, as allegations fly of a high - level conspiracy in the original phone - hacking investigations and substantial pay offs from News of the World hacks.

Revelations about the snooping activities of GCHQ - which saw diplomats» emails reportedly hacked and their phone call activity monitored by a team of 45 analysts - come after US whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed the UK could have benefited from an American snooping programme known as «Prism».

Here's a selection of highlights from our coverage of the culture, media and sport committee's inquiry into phone - hacking.

10:19 - To drum up on things a little, here's our damage report from after the first phase of the phone - hacking scandal, looking at the main players and how they were affected.

Crone said he believes Murdoch has evidence of the widespread nature of phone - hacking, Watson argues, from 2008 onwards.

She confirmed media reports that he had sent her a consoling message after she was forced to resign from her job as chief executive of News International at the height of the phone - hacking scandal last year.

Follow our live coverage of a historic day in parliament, as leading figures in the phone - hacking scandal face questions from MPs.

Whilst investigations conducted from 2005 to 2007 appeared to show that the paper's phone hacking activities were limited to celebrities, politicians, and members of the British Royal Family, in July 2011 it was revealed that the phones of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, relatives of deceased British soldiers, and victims of the 7 July 2005 London bombings had also been hacked.

James Murdoch stated that News International had based its «push back» against new allegations on the combination of three pieces of evidence: that the Metropolitan Police had closed their investigation, that the Crown Prosecution Service had closed their prosecution and that they had received written advice from their legal advisors Harbottle & Lewis, that there was nothing to suggest phone hacking was not the work of one «rogue reporter» working with private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.

After the 2006 conviction of Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire, and with assurances from News International, the Press Complaints Commission and the Metropolitan Police Service that no one else had been involved in phone hacking, the public perception was that the matter was closed.

Also on 3 August, Piers Morgan issued a statement through CNN, his employer, that «I have never hacked a phone, told anyone to hack a phone, nor to my knowledge published any story obtained from the hacking of a phone.»

[117] A number of survivors from the bombings revealed that police had warned them their phones may have been hacked and their messages intercepted; in some cases they were advised to change security codes and PINs.

The Guardian journalist Nick Davies described commissions from the News of the World as the «golden source» of income for Rees» «empire of corruption», which involved a network of contacts with corrupt police officers and a pattern of illegal behaviour extending far beyond phone hacking.

[71] Mark Lewis, the solicitor acting for a number of phone hacking victims including the family of Milly Dowler, stated in evidence that he was sacked from his job when fellow partners at his law firm stated they no longer wished to pursue other victims» claims.

12:55 - Murdoch appears to misunderstand an invitation from Leveson to talk about the victims of phone - hacking by talking about News of the World ex-employees instead.

Leading from the front — on phone - hacking, banking reform, putting the crisis of the «squeezed middle» on the political agenda before anyone else.

He resigned from the Sunday paper when its royal editor, Clive Goodman, was convicted of phone hacking.

News of the World David Wooding claimed a much - rumoured Sunday Sun paper would not easily grab readers from his paper which has just closed amid a phone hacking scandal.

He resigned from the company in July 2011 after the scandal of phone - hacking was revealed by the Guardian.

Miliband, whose leadership may have been rescued from the brink by the phone - hacking scandal, revelled in Cameron's decision to take on former News of the World editor Andy Coulson.

«The co-ordinated arrests were made between approximately 05:00 GMT and 07:00 GMT this morning by officers from Operation Weeting, the inquiry into the phone - hacking of voicemail boxes.

Mr Watson said he wanted further evidence from the News International chairman over the question of whether he was aware that phone - hacking at the News of the World newspaper was widespread.

The sordid details of the scandal instantly turned the phone - hacking row from a celebrity - orientated issue into something much more serious.

He told the Commons» home affairs committee that he had an «effective veto» over the choice of who would replace Sir Paul Stephenson, who resigned from the job at the height of the phone - hacking scandal.

Having been editor of the News of the World from 2000 to 2003, editor of the Sun from 2003 to 2009, and chief executive of News International from 2009, Brooks is a key figure in the phone - hacking furore which has engulfed Rupert Murdoch's media empire.

Cameron is successfully implementing a radical right - wing economic agenda without any mandate for it, he orchestrated and won a war in Libya, he emerged unscathed from a wealth of scandals — including the August riots, phone - hacking and Liam Fox's resignation.

The development comes as the phone - hacking scandal continues to wreak havoc in Westminster, prompting the resignation of Britain's most senior policemen and triggering a rare Commons committee appearance from Rupert Murdoch and his son James.

In September News UK took the unusual step of dropping its solicitors Linklaters mid-case, replacing them with a team from Clifford Chance including Jeremy Sandelson, who was instructed by James Murdoch during the Leveson inquiry and the culture media and sport select committee inquiry into phone hacking.

It is almost unbelievable, but true, that the Met were sitting on evidence from 2006 onwards that indicated that the phones of up to 3,000 well - known figures had been hacked into, but neverthelessthis was ignored and the police went along with the NI line that phone hacking was confined to one single rogue reporter (whose legal bills are still being paid by NI to ensure he doesn't blurt out what he must know to the contrary).

The newspaper also reported that Mr Brown's lawyers were tricked into handing over details by a conman working for the Sunday Times, that someone acting for the same newspaper posed as Mr Brown to gain details of his bank account and that Mr Brown and his wife, Sarah, were mentioned in paperwork seized from Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator at the heart of the phone - hacking row.

Ian Edmondson, who has been suspended from active duties after allegations that he was linked to phone hacking at the News of the World, was one of Andy Coulson's inner circle of executives when David Cameron's director of communications was editor of the paper, according to a former reporter on the tabloid.

She has been facing mounting pressure to step down from all sides following the revelations about phone hacking by journalists at the News of the World which she used to edit.

He says it was obvious to him, from his own involvement in the phone hacking case - Hughes was one of the victims in the original Clive Goodman case - that more people were involved.

The central findings, from the watchdog's powers and the police response to phone hacking, to the possibility of a UK «first amendment» and the media's treatment of footballers» wives

The three executives will face fierce questioning from MPs who have fought a tenacious campaign to expose the phone hacking scandal which has plunged Mr Murdoch's media into crisis in the space of two weeks.

Exclusive: Channel 4 News has learned that members of the committee set up to investigate the phone hacking scandal shied away from forcing News International chief executive and former Sun editor Rebekah Brooks to attend a meeting with them.

John Prescott's mobile phone was reported to have been one of those hacked into, Jon Snow spoke to him on the phone from Cumbria and asked him if the police or anyone else had told him his phone had been tapped?

«I've spoken to people that have had websites set up in their name requesting child pornography, their bank accounts hacked and money stolen from their account, and their employer phoned and told they were alcoholics,» says Amy Binns at University of Central Lancashire.

«I»VE spoken to people that have had websites set up in their name requesting child pornography, their bank accounts hacked and money stolen from their account, and their employer phoned and told they were alcoholics,» says Amy Binns at the University of Central Lancashire.

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Now that she's retired, she makes that dream a reality and sets herself up as an investigator.With reluctant help from her sister - in - law, Sable, Connie takes on her first client.What starts out as a simple case of tracking down a missing person soon turns into an intriguing case of deception, phone hacking and murder.