By Martin Hickman Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper group considered closing the News of the World a month before the Guardian disclosed it had targeted missing girl Milly Dowler, the phone hacking trial…

By Martin Hickman News International’s chief executive Rebekah Brooks knew that the company’s lone “rogue reporter” defence against phone hacking was “shaky” a year and a half before it changed its public…

By Martin Hickman Rebekah Brooks demonstrated poor judgment by turning down the scoop on the MPs’ expenses scandal, she admitted at the phone hacking trial today. In evidence about payments to public…

By Martin Hickman Stories for which the Sun paid a civil servant thousands of pounds could have come from a variety of legitimate sources rather than a public official, the paper’s former…

By Martin Hickman The Sun never received any complaints about stories for which a Ministry of Defence official received payments, Rebekah Brooks told the phone hacking trial today. In her defence against…

By Martin Hickman One of Rupert Murdoch’s most senior executives told a court today that she authorised payments to public officials in return for information for stories in his British newspapers. Rebekah Brooks, editor…

By Martin Hickman Rebekah Brooks offered a phone hacker a job after he came out of prison to stop him alleging widespread hacking at the News of the World, she told the…

By Martin Hickman The Sun did not rely on phone hacking to establish the identity of Home Secretary David Blunkett’s lover, the Old Bailey heard today. Kimberly Quinn was named by the…

By Martin Hickman Rebekah Brooks today denied ordering newspaper executives to remove a reference to a hacked voicemail from a story about Milly Dowler. The News of the World changed a story…

By Martin Hickman Rebekah Brooks today denied any involvement in the hacking of Milly Dowler’s phone. Giving evidence at the Old Bailey, Mrs Brooks said she had not known that the schoolgirl’s…