By Martin Hickman Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson refused to answer all questions when they were arrested, the prosecution revealed at the phone hacking trial today. Prosecutor Mark Bryant-Heron recounted Mrs Brooks’s…

By Martin Hickman Princes William and Harry were targets of the News of the World’s phone hacking operation, the phone hacking trial heard today. At the Old Bailey, prosecutor Andrew Edis read out…

By Martin Hickman Stuart Kuttner, a senior executive at News of the World, told police he had only heard about the paper’s hacking of Milly Dowler from news reports. Mr Kuttner, managing…

By Martin Hickman One of the News of the World’s most senior executives had not even realised phone hacking was possible before the arrest of the paper’s royal editor seven years ago,…

By Martin Hickman DAY 30 – Andy Coulson’s lawyers today revealed his defence to the suggestion that his instruction to “do his phone” was a command to hack the phone of reality…

By Martin Hickman DAY 29 – Andy Coulson was concerned about the low quality of kiss and tell stories appearing in the News of the World, the phone hacking trial heard today.…

By Martin Hickman DAY 29 – Former News of the World news editor Ian Edmondson was today discharged from the phone hacking trial. Judge John Saunders told the jury a “consensus” of…

By Martin Hickman DAY 28 – Rebekah Brooks and Piers Morgan bantered about hacking into each other’s phones at the 35th birthday party of their fellow tabloid editor Andy Coulson, the Old…

By Martin Hickman Police did not tell a senior member of the Royal Household that a large number of Buckingham Palace phone directories had been found at the home of the News…

By Martin Hickman A Sun journalist was briefed by a member of Britain’s domestic counter-intelligence and security agency MI5, it was suggested at the hacking trial today. In an email read to…